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NYC using GPS to catch pill bandits

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

** FILE ** The New York Police Department assigned thousands of extra patrols to Times Square last year on New Year’s Eve to control the crowd and watch for any signs of trouble. (Associated Press)

NYPD keeping eye on the New Year’s Eve ball

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by Jamill Noorata shows Shamiur Rahman (left) sitting with Siraj Wahhaj at John Jay Community College in New York. Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bengali descent who has now denounced his work as a paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit, was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying bad things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press. (Associated Press/Courtesy of Jamill Noorata)

Informant: NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

NYPD is watching Facebook to fight gang bloodshed

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)

NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)

NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

**FILE** The apartment complex in New Brunswick, N.J., where an apartment was rented by an undercover NYPD officer is seen here on July 13, 2011. On June 2, 2009, a building superintendent at the complex just off the Rutgers University campus called 911 after stumbling one of the NYPD's biggest secrets — a safe house, a place where undercover officers working well outside the department's jurisdiction could lay low and coordinate surveillance. (Associated Press)

See something, say something, uncover NYPD spying

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

American Scene: Immigration law ruling likely to prompt lawsuits

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** New York City police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly speaks on Jan. 27, 2012, during a news conference in New York. (Associated Press)

N.J. Muslims file federal suit to stop NYPD spying

By Eileen Sullivan - Associated Press

** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)

N.J. finds NYPD Muslim surveillance is legal

By Samantha Henry - Associated Press

NYPD: Woman reports dispute with Jackie Mason

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

A large gathering sits March 8, 2012, at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., during an interfaith news conference to address concerns about the spying conducted by the New York City Police Department on the Muslim community in New Jersey. (Associated Press)

Poll: NYC voters approve of NYPD’s job performance

By Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

A large gathering sits March 8, 2012, at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., during an interfaith news conference to address concerns about the spying conducted by the New York City Police Department on the Muslim community in New Jersey. (Associated Press)

NYPD docs: ‘Focus’ scrutiny on Muslim Americans

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)

‘Third Jihad’ narrator rallying in support of NYPD

By Colleen Long - Associated Press

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NAPOLITANO: Spies in New Jersey

By Andrew P. Napolitano - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A member of the Muslim community performs a call to prayer during a rally in New York on Feb. 3, 2012, to demand the resignation of police Commissioner Ray Kelly and police department spokesman Paul Browne. Thirty-three civil rights groups from around America complained to the New York attorney general about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. (Associated Press)

Civil rights groups call for investigation of NYPD

By Beth DeFalco - Associated Press

**FILE** New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (center) briefs New York police officials and John O. Brennan (center left), assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, and Deputy New York Police Commissioner of Intelligence David Cohen (center right) on Sept. 26, 2009, at police headquarters in New York on events surrounding an alleged plot to bomb New York commuter trains. (Associated Press/NYPD)

White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance

By Eileen Sullivan - Associated Press

**FILE** New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (right) speaks Dec. 29, 2011, at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Associated Press)

Records detail mosque spying; NYPD defends tactics

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

NYPD built secret files on N.J., Long Island mosques

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

**FILE** A person walks Feb. 15, 2012, on the University at Buffalo campus in Buffalo, N.Y. (Associated Press)

NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast

By Chris Hawley - Associated Press