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What is Muslim Mapping by the LAPD?

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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.

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LAPD On Defensive Over "Muslim Mapping" Project ()

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, news reports have talked about “Muslim mapping,” which has been denounced by the ACLU and others as “racial profiling.”

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New Book Chronicling California's Big Daddy ()

In this era of what’s called “hyperpartisanship,” California’s elected officials just can’t solve problems involving vital issues like health care, transportation and the water supply. It wasn’t always that way. A new book profiles a leader who got things done, and not that long ago.  Jess Unruh was Speaker of the State Assembly and later State Treasurer.  He ran against Ronald Reagan in 1970.  He’s now the subject of a new book called “Big Daddy: Jess Unruh and the Art of Power Politics.” 

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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