the still young administration of mayor bill de blasio and william brattan ended the program this week. on this edition of the program, whether the policy worked, when and whether it should be permissible, and whether it's practices should run no the notion of profiling, collective guilt and probabl probable caus. >>> the assessment unit has been disbanded after spending a decade covertly monitoring muslim communities, subject to lawsuits and mounting public criticism, it was closed down by william brattan. in a statement tuesday the department said, understanding certain local demographics can be an useful practicer when assessing information regarding potential threats coming to the attention of the new york city police department. it has been determined that much of the same information previously gathered by the zone assessment unit may be obtained through direct outreach by the nypd to the communities concerned. the secret program created by a c.i.a. officer in 2003 sent plains clothes police officers to eavesdrop. the idea was to stop potential terrorists. in 2011 the associated