Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Whitehouse has granted USD 135 million to the New York and New Jersey, to help law enforcement fight drug crimes.
However, some of that money has paid for the cars that plainclothes NYPD officers used to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighborhoods and computers to save information about Muslim college students, mosque sermons and social events.
The Associated Press revealed the use of Whitehouse money through secret police documents and interviews with current and former city and federal officials.
In recent months, the AP has revealed secret programs the NYPD, built with help from the CIA, to monitor entire Muslim neighborhoods, collecting information on the daily activities of Muslims such as eating and praying which are all behavior protected by the First Amendment of the US constitution.
The AP also revealed that the NYPD has been monitoring Muslim students at New York University and at least 14 other colleges all over the northeast US, far beyond its jurisdiction. The revelation has outraged faculty and student groups.
It should be noted that the NYPD is not the only institution discriminating against Muslims, the FBI has its own ethnic mapping program that spies on Muslim communities, especially prayers and other community leaders.
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