"To accomplish this, Kelly created what was known as the Demographics Unit. The secretive unit used plainclothes officers of Arab or South Asian descent to spy on Muslims and record summaries of conversations, all without any evidence of criminal activity.
While being deposed last year in a long-running civil lawsuit, a top NYPD officer acknowledged that the unit, by then renamed the Zone Assessment Unit, had not generated any terrorism leads since its creation but was still compiling several reports a day on residents. "
While being deposed last year in a long-running civil lawsuit, a top NYPD officer acknowledged that the unit, by then renamed the Zone Assessment Unit, had not generated any terrorism leads since its creation but was still compiling several reports a day on residents. "
