{"id":121048,"date":"2014-05-27T03:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=121048"},"modified":"2014-05-27T03:44:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:44:23","slug":"121048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/121048\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Fight Unethical NYPD Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several protest groups are in the process of filing a formal complaint over\u00a0the New York Police Department\u2019s intelligence gathering operations, following revelations that undercover police had\u00a0attended activist meetings and kept intelligence files on campaigners\u00a0over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Activists will ask the\u00a0inspector general to\u00a0audit the controversial surveillance programs.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing investigation by the AP, who first broke the story, demonstrates how police have abused their powers &#8211; and the law &#8211; to monitor groups who oppose government policies.<\/p>\n<p>The probe has uncovered many disconcerting intelligence operations,\u00a0NYPD are also accused of paying informants to &#8216;bait&#8217; Muslims &#8211; in which they receive funding from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>A look at their investigations\u00a0can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/Index\/AP-In-The-News\/NYPD\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF Alternative News Several protest groups are in the process of filing a formal complaint over\u00a0the New York Police Department\u2019s intelligence gathering operations, following revelations that undercover police had\u00a0attended activist meetings and kept intelligence files on campaigners\u00a0over the past two decades. Activists will ask the\u00a0inspector general to\u00a0audit the controversial surveillance programs. The ongoing investigation by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}