The New York Police Department will soon find itself at the receiving end of an independent inquiry, alleging that the police department has been using unlawful tactics in its counterterrorism efforts. 

Civil rights lawyers are getting set to file papers at the Federal District Court House in New York on Monday and will ask a judge to appoint an independent monitor to review the NYPD, who they claim have unjustly placed Muslim communities under surveillance, The New York Times reports.