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What is Muslim Mapping by the LAPD?
Deputy Chief Michael Downing told Congress last month that the LAPD was starting a project to identify communities vulnerable to “ideologically based extremism.” That’s come to be called “Muslim mapping,” and it’s been denounced as “racial profiling.” On Reporter’s Notebook, a new book on the “Big Daddy” of California politics.
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenDeputy Chief Michael Downing told Congress last month that the LAPD was starting a project to identify communities vulnerable to “ideologically based extremism.” That’s come to be called “Muslim mapping,” and it’s been denounced as “racial profiling.” On Reporter’s Notebook, a new book on the “Big Daddy” of California politics.
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Michael Downing is Deputy Chief in charge of the LAPD’s Counter Terrorism Bureau . In Washington last month, he told a congressional committee, there is “a vicious, amorphous and unfamiliar adversary on our land.” He said the LAPD hopes to identify communities that “may be susceptible to violent, ideologically-based extremism.” Since then,…
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