The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) on 18 June welcomed a legal challenge to the unconstitutional New York Police Department (NYPD) programme engaging in mass surveillance of Muslim communities.In August of 2011, an investigation by The Associated Pressrevealed an NYPD programme developed in partnership with the CIA to target American Muslims with unprecedented monitoring, surveillance and alleged civil rights violations.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the City University of New York Law School’s Centre for Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CUNY CLEAR), filed a lawsuit to challenge the NYPD’s unconstitutional policy and practice of targeting entire Muslim communities for discriminatory and surveillance without suspicion of wrongdoing.