A Judge Keeps His Eye on Police Spies
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/opinion/a-judge-keeps-his-eye-on-police-spies.html
In 2011, press accounts revealed that the police were spying on Muslims in New York. The Handschu lawyers subsequently went back to court, arguing that the city was ignoring the guidelines by targeting Muslim groups for infiltration and surveillance because of their religious affiliation. The police had created open-ended “terrorism enterprise investigations” that were clearly intended to circumvent the Handschu guidelines. The department kept records on casual conversations among Muslims, used informants to spy on student groups and scrutinized Muslim congregations for years, though no charges were ever filed against a mosque.