Muslim student associations in February. Rutgers University was one of the institutions of higher learning, where Muslim students were being watched by NYPD officers. While mayors and heads of colleges or universities expressed outrage when spying operations were uncovered, the Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder has not launched a public investigation into the covert surveillance conducted outside of New York City. Though Holder has claimed he is "disturbed," the Justice Department has only been able to muster the courage to privately " review " complaints.  However, according to Apuzzo and Goldman, "Muslim groups have sued to shut down the NYPD programs. Civil rights lawyers have asked a federal judge to decide whether the spying violates federal rules that were set up to prevent a repeat of NYPD abuses of the 1950s, when police Red Squads spied on student groups and activists in search of communists." Additionally, the NYPD wants the public to believe it is a police department that has evolved into an honorable agency capable of countering terrorism threats, but as ProPublica 's Justin Elliott demonstrated recently Commissioner Ray Kelly and his department have not stopped fourteen terror attacks, as they like to claim. So, it is not an agency with counterterror accomplishments that one might say rivals the FBI. Instead, it has become a criminal enterprise that operates with supreme disregard for civil liberties and the rule of law. It has developed into the embodiment of all the worst excesses of the national security state and,