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The New York City Police Department Intelligence Bureau is a division of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) responsible for the detection and disruption of criminal and terrorist activity through the use of intelligence-led policing.

Intelligence Operations and Analysis Section (IOAS)
The IOAS is responsible for both collecting and analyzing data for counterterrorism purposes.

Criminal Intelligence Section (CIS)
Similar to the IOAS, the CIS collects and analyzes data for counter-crime purposes. They also conduct the Field Intelligence Officer (FIO) program, where officers conduct intelligence work with narcotics, firearms and other criminal investigations.

Demographics unit / zone assessment unit
The Demographics unit (later known as the Zone Assessment Unit) was a secret police intelligence division formed after the September 11 attacks to surveil Muslim Americans. Police Spokespersons did not publicly acknowledge the unit until after the Associated Press revealed the organization through a Pulitzer Prize award winning series of articles.

The unit's techniques included eavesdropping on conversations held in public locations, gaining access to internet usage by muslim groups on college campuses by claiming to be investigating narcotics or gang activity, and labeling entire mosques as terror groups in order to record sermons and spy on religious officials without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Twenty eight "ancestries of interest were monitored by the unit, ranging from Arab ethnicities like Palestinian and Syrian to heavily Muslim populations from former Soviet states such as Chechnya and Uzbekistan to Black American Muslims". . It was noted by the ACLU that the NYPD "expressly excluded from its surveillance and mapping activities non-Muslims such as Coptic Christian Egyptians or Iranian Jews".

In 2013, the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), along with Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) published a report that was critical of NYPD surveillance of their communities, and the Demographics Unit in particular. On April 15th, 2014 The New York Times reported that the NYPD officially dismantled the Zone Assessment Unit (formerly known as the Demographics Unit). . However, there is concern that the data gathered through the program is still being used today.

in August 2012, the Chief of the NYPD Intelligence Division, Lt. Paul Galati admitted during sworn testimony that in the six years of his tenure, the unit tasked with monitoring American Muslim life had not yielded a single criminal lead.