What it has accomplished, according to the chief of the department's intelligence division, is eavesdropping on people in Lebanese cafes because "that may be an indicator of possibility that that is a sympathizer to Hezbollah."

That's from a deposition that intelligence chief Thomas Galati gave in June in a long-standing federal civil rights case against the NYPD. According to Galati, the demographics unit—which dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslims in schools, mosques, cafes, and shops for no other reason than that they are Muslims—"never made a lead" or generated any useful investigative information as far as he knows.