{"id":2084,"date":"2007-11-12T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2007-11-12T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:08:13","slug":"lapd-plans-to-map-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/11\/12\/lapd-plans-to-map-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Plans to Map Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest111207\/2007_11_12_profiling.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest111207\/2007_11_12_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=60% src=\"http:\/\/www.aclu-sc.org\/attach\/m\/map.jpg\"\/><em>GUESTS: Shakeel Syed,  Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Kathy Masaoka, Nikkei for Civil RIghts and Redress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The LAPD\u2019s anti-terrorism bureau says it plants to map the city\u2019s Muslim neighborhoods. Deputy Chief Michael Downing said that although the plan is in its early stages, he wants to create extensive maps to avoid what he says would be the pressure to radicalize Muslims and advocate \u201cviolent, ideologically-based extremism.\u201d While testifying to Congress two weeks ago, Downing said that law enforcement agencies around the country are faced with \u201ca vicious, amorphous and unfamiliar adversary on our land.\u201dAccording to Downing, who heads the LAPD\u2019s counter-terrorism bureau, the Muslim Public Affairs Council has welcomed the idea in concept. He adds that USC\u2019s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events \u2013 which was given $12 million in federal funds to kick-start the center four years ago, will amass the data. Meanwhile, religious groups and civil libertarians are condemning the plan, saying it amounts to racial and religious profiling. ACLU Executive Director Ramon Ripston has compared the program to the Red Scare of the 1950s. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuracouncil.org\">www.shuracouncil.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrr-la.org\">www.ncrr-la.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUESTS: Shakeel Syed, Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Kathy Masaoka, Nikkei for Civil RIghts and Redress The LAPD\u2019s anti-terrorism bureau says it plants to map the city\u2019s Muslim neighborhoods. Deputy Chief Michael Downing said that although the plan is in its early stages, he wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}