CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy vowed at a meeting with a local Muslim leader Tuesday to confine his department's surveillance activities to those that pursue "criminal leads," and to avoid the type of widespread spying allegedly carried out by New York police.

The meeting, which was also attended by an area Jewish leader and an immigrants rights group official, followed an Associated Press report last week that showed the New York Police Department spied on Muslim neighborhoods in Newark when McCarthy led that city's police department. Ahmed Rehab, who heads the local office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, requested the meeting over concerns such an operation could happen in Chicago.

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