anything, they would be in trouble. while under police scrutiny for suspected ties to terrorism, muslim communities like this one had become the object of retaliation for 9/11. people pulling the hijabs out of their heads, pushing them, spitting on them, call them terrorist, call them osama. they don t want to go to the presivpr precinct. they didn t feel comfortable going to report it. the growing rift between the muslim communities and the n.y.p.d. revealed a misguided policy that would eventually be deemed a failure. breaking news from the n.y.p.d.. the department has disbanded its controversial surveillance program involving muslim communities. when the secret surveillance program was finally exposed and disbanded, it had yielded no leads to terrorists. would you say, were there any mistakes made in the aftermath of 9/11 in how the department was trying to
you say the wrong thing, you re done. under the surveillance program, a key focus was gatherings of worship. places like majid al salahin, a small mosque in q garden hills. the president of the mosque they watched as fear spread in the community. in the beginning, did you feel like there was a lot of heavy handedness? of course. a lot of people were afraid to come to pray in the mosque because any wrong move, anything, they would be in trouble. while under police scrutiny for suspected ties to terrorism, muslim communities like this one had become the object of retaliation for 9/11. people pulling the hijabs out of their heads, pushing them, spitting on them, call them terrorist, call them osama. they don t want to go to the precinct. they didn t feel comfortable going to report it. the growing rift between the muslim communities and the