Mayor de Blasio said Thursday that he would not plant police informants in local mosques, as the city once did.
He rejected former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s call to return to the policy, which Giuliani started in the ’90s and which remained in place until de Blasio ended it last year.
“We have exceptional intelligence-gathering capacity and an ability to prevent attacks without violating . . . constitutional rights,” the mayor told MSNBC.