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What is Muslim Mapping by the LAPD?

Hosted by Warren Olney Nov. 14, 2007
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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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,...

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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...

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Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Sonya Geis, Dan Konecky

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