muslim americans in the state of new jersey and does this mean racial profiling is acceptable there to discuss this linda sarsour or executive director of the arab american association of new york joins us now welcome linda so as a as a member of the muslim community what's your reaction to this. reaction to the information that new jersey thinks that the operation of the n.y.p.d. are legal says to me that it ministrations whether state or on a federal level just because they see something the legal it doesn't mean it's right i mean the united states had slavery in this country and we thought that that was legal and we operated a slave treaty so i think it's very important for me to say that racial profiling religious profiling is wrong blanket surveillance of an entire community is wrong and we're going to continue to fight this when you say that this is what this review effectively says that racial profiling is legal and ok in some instances while the new jersey state laws they don't have very strong laws around racial profiling but i don't really think that the investigation was focusing directly on the surveillance of the muslim community i think the question was was it leg

august, the associated press had stories about racial, ethnic and religious profiling conducted by new york city police department against muslim, arab americans inal dozen states. in september of last year, i asked the department of justice to investigate what we now know is a pattern of surveillance and infiltration by the new york police department against innocent muslims in the absence of a reason. they were mapped and surveiled simply because they were muslim. profiling is wrong. profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity and religion is a violation of core constitutional principles. profiling is also wrong because it is not good p policing. profiling is a unthinking, lazy, unprofessional work to police and intelligence work and only raises the risk that the real plot will slip through the cracks. profiling is counterproductive. the sloppiness of the nypd was such that such were labeled as muslims and contrary to the blanket assertions by some that the tactics have kept new york city safe, the nypd failed to uncover two actual plots against new york city, those perpetrated by shaad. in the first case, the f.b.i. was surveilling the mosque he attended and the muslim student