blog.nj.com — If it's possible for the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey to have gone worse, it's hard to see how. The NYPD's ethnic mapping of Newark - which took place in 2007, apparently with the permission of friendly elements in the Newark Police Department - was meant to create a guide to Brick City's Muslim community, designed to assist police in the event of a credible threat that reached into New Jersey.