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.

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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Credits

Host:
Warren Olney

Producers:
Sonya Geis, Dan Konecky