Mary Bakija

Mary Bakija
How NYPD Spying Changed Demographics And Faith In Little Pakistan

Ethnic Profiling

How NYPD Spying Changed Demographics And Faith In Little Pakistan

Conor Friedersdorf’s recent piece in The Atlantic [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/the-horrifying-impacts-of-nypd-ethnic-profiling-on-innocent-muslim-americans/274434/] details the effects of the NYPD’s decade-long surveillance in Muslim communities. As one of Brooklyn’s most diverse areas [http://project.wnyc.org/census-maps/nyc-diversity/index.html] and the neighborhood that