Chicago Mayor: City Police Wouldn't Spy on Muslims Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Chicago would not conduct activities like the NYPD operation that spied on Muslims in Newark, N.J., when Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was chief there. But Emanuel says he is "1,000 percent" behind McCarthy, who was formerly a senior NYPD officer. Emanuel hired him last year. Emanuel spoke Thursday after The Associated Press reported NYPD officers took photographs and eavesdropped inside Muslim businesses in Newark in mid-2007 while McCarthy was police chief. McCarthy says the NYPD notified him their officers were coming to Newark as a courtesy and that no Newark officers were involved. Emanuel says he talked to McCarthy about the surveillance but told him to stay focused on keeping Chicago safe.