The NYPD’s efforts to reach out to the muslim community since 9/11

The World

In the months after 9/11, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly reached out to the city’s Muslim population. WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly explains how that strategy has worked and what those relationships have meant during the current controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.

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