text_1: "The New York Police Department used to have ""surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."
text_2: "Trump said the New York Police Department used to conduct ""surveillance in and around mosques in New York City. Our mayor totally cut that out."" While Trump doesn’t paint the full picture, there is evidence that supports his point: the New York Police Department used to spy on Muslims. The program actually went further than just surveilling mosques -- detectives mapped out entire Muslim communities, tracked Muslims’ daily activities, investigated Muslim college students and more. The project was shut down, but it was the police commissioner, not the mayor, who officially closed the program. The commissioner is the mayor’s appointee and in all likelihood acted with the mayor’s approval. We can’t say with certainty what kind of surveillance the police department conducts now. But Trump is right that a high-profile program was shuttered."