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BY CHRISTOPHER RIGHTMIRE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Miles away from the Big Apple, in a different state, and a different city, a superintendent of a New Brunswick apartment stumbled upon a New York Police Department safe house in 2009.

Now, the New Brunswick Police Department has released the recording of the 911 phone call that the superintendent made.

According to the tape, the building superintendent, Salil Sheth, described the room as suspicious. He said, “the apartment has about – has no furniture except two beds, has no clothing, has New York City Police Department radios.”

Salil went on to say that the apartment had computer hardware and software, as well as pictures of terrorists and the neighboring building.

According to the Huffington Post, the NYPD has been monitoring the actions of Muslims in New York and across the nation. The NYPD kept files on sermons, recorded the names of political organizers in police documents, and built databases of where Muslims lived and shoped. The operation in New Brunswick was one aspect of this intelligence-gathering effort.

When interviewed by radio 101.5 in May, Governor Chris Christie said, “I understand we need people doing covert surveillance so that we can protect the people in our state and our region, no problem with that.”

Christie went on to say, “My concern is, why can’t you [the NYPD] be communicating with the people here in New Jersey with law enforcement here in New Jersey, are we somehow not trustworthy? My concern is this kind of obsession that the NYPD seems to have that they are the masters of the universe.”