NYT: On Reed-Thin Evidence, a Very Wide Net of Police Surveillance

NYT: On Reed-Thin Evidence, a Very Wide Net of Police Surveillance by Michael Powell:

We are accustomed to thinking of New York’s police spying and surveillance as a phenomenon afflicting Muslims, just as we are accustomed to thinking of stop-and-frisk tactics as a problem afflicting male blacks and Latinos. In fact, from the Republican National Convention to bike rides through the city to Occupy Wall Street, police undercover spying is often as omnipresent.