November 21, 2007

Why L.A. police cancelled a plan to map Muslims

By Daniel B. Wood – staff writer and Alison Tully Contributor
A high-profile police plan to map Los Angeles’s Muslim population to pinpoint possible terror risks – a plan abruptly withdrawn last week – is an object lesson for US law enforcement in the era after 9/11, say policing experts.
Los Angeles, a bastion of ethnic diversity, [...]