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New York City police secretly collected information on Muslim communities in nearby Newark, New Jersey, police records have shown. Newark Mayor Cory Booker said he was not informed of the surveillance, revealed by the Associated Press.

“This raises a number of concerns,” Mr Booker said, promising to investigate. “It’s just very, very sobering.”

Earlier this week university officials in the US north-east protested against NYPD monitoring of Muslim students.

Administrators at Yale and Columbia protested about the police department’s activities, which the NYPD said were justified in an effort to identify possible campus radicalisation.

Earlier this month, civic groups from around the US called for a legal investigation into intelligence-gathering on Shia Muslims in New York.

NYPD’s demographic unit compiled information on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in Newark in 2007, AP reported.

The secret police report obtained by the news agency mentions no evidence of terrorism or criminal behaviour.

“These locations provide the maximum ability to assess the general opinions and general activity of these communities,” the report said.

Similar reports were prepared for two counties in Long Island, in New York state.

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