Police appear to be conducting fewer investigations intruding on peoples’ religious and political activity, according to a report issued Thursday by a former federal judge appointed to monitor such probes.
A police official said the report should refute “assertions that the NYPD engages in unwarranted surveillance of political groups or the Muslim community.”
Officers’ requests for such investigations declined by 4% between March 2018 and March 2019, says the report by ex-federal judge Stephen Robinson.