A group of civil rights lawyers have asked a judge in Manhattan to force the New York City Police Department to turn over records detailing a secret police program to monitor Muslim neighborhoods. The Associated Press recently exposed a secret police surveillance unit known as the “Demographics Unit” that used plainclothes officers to infiltrate mosques and to gather information on where Muslims eat, work, pray and shop. New York City police also maintained a list of 28 countries that were labeled as “ancestries of interest.” American Black Muslim was also listed.