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The Associated Press' Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the NYPD's supposed "clandestine spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities" is rife with inaccuracies. The articles confuse events and policies in ways that are misleading and cast the tale they are telling in the worst possible light.
I know all this to be true, because I worked directly for the deputy commissioner of the NYPD's Intelligence Division for the last seven years — the last four (today's my last day) as his director of intelligence analysis, overseeing all the city's terrorism investigations.
In this limited space, I'll focus on one set of distortions: the AP's claim that the NYPD has, without citing any evidence of wrongdoing, engaged in a "human-mapping" program that placed entire Muslim communities under scrutiny.