De Blasio Reserving Judgment on NYPD’s Muslim Informant-Seeking Program

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Jill Colvin

Mayor Bill de Blasio today said he would reserve judgment on an NYPD program that reportedly sends officers to comb city jails, trying to recruit immigrant, Muslim men to serve as confidential police informants.

“Well, I want to know more about it, and I’ll be speaking to Commissioner [Bill] Bratton about it,” Mr. de Blasio told the Observer at an unrelated press conference today in Queens.

The New York Times reported this weekend on the “Citywide Debriefing Team,” a unit whose officers reportedly search the city’s prisoner lists for immigrant men and women who might prove useful as informants. Those who are targeted are often in custody for minor crimes and violations, and are asked about their religious practices, mosques and communities during the course of questioning, the paper reported.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/05/de-blasio-reserving-judgment-on-nypds-muslim-informant-seeking-program/#ixzz31YLTs9Cr

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