(NY Daily News) Mayor Adams joined a growing chorus of local lawmakers and advocates Monday in condemning a top NYPD official’s defense of the department’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Speaking at an unrelated press conference in the Bronx, Adams said it was “wrong” for John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of counterterrorism, to recently voice support for the since-disbanded spying initiative.
“What we did was wrong,” Adams, a retired NYPD captain, said of the program, noting that he has long criticized the effort.
Asked directly if it was appropriate for Miller to stand by the surveillance operations, Adams said, “It’s up to the mayor to set the tone. I set it, the tone, not only now saying it’s wrong — I set it then, when it was happening.”
