Sentence examples for a demographic unit from inspiring English sources

A demographic unit mapped where Muslims ate, bathed, bought meat, got haircuts and prayed.

As an example for the rest of the country to follow, the senator pointed to New York, where the police department launched a "demographics unit" after the 9/11 attacks.

He said the spying was a question of nomenclature: The Associated Press asked about a demographics unit while he knew only of its new name, the zone assessment unit.

After The A.P. released documents about a "Demographics Unit" assigned to map Muslim communities, the police were forced to acknowledge the program, but minimized its significance.

Mr. Browne said there was no such thing as a demographics unit, that the councilman was handcuffed only after a punch had been thrown at a police captain, and that the inspector used pepper spray after being confronted by demonstrators.

News reports that the Police Department has created a demographics unit to monitor, as Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly explained, "a lot of different communities," have provoked alarm and criticism among civil liberty advocates who consider the program as unfairly placing entire groups of people, particularly Muslims, under a shadow of suspicion.

The NYPD also created a "Demographics Unit" that mapped out Muslim communities in the city and in Newark, New Jersey, a squad that was shut down by Mayor Bill de Blasio to much fanfare earlier this year.

Last year, The Associated Press published articles about the surveillance of Muslim communities in New York that it said was done under the supervision of a police demographic unit; the department denied the existence of such a unit, but The A.P. published documents with that very name in the title.

Rather, as Jitka Rychtarikova of the Charles University in Prague argues, it no longer makes sense to talk about Europe as a single demographic unit at all.

They found that undercover officers, known as rakers, infiltrated hundreds of mosques; that a secret demographic unit compiled extensive dossiers on where Muslim New Yorkers eat, work, type on computers and transfer money to relatives; and that even imams who worked closely and courageously with the police have found themselves spied on and listed as "suspects".

Here, we use "incompatibility selection" to describe selective regimes characterized by neutrality within a specific demographic unit and negative selection elsewhere.