Above all, this strategy of engagement within Muslim American communities not only carried forward the baseline presumption that Muslim identity is correlative with terrorism, but also localized it by deputizing police officers to lead the charge in unearthing potential radicals and preventing them from taking action.

DEFINE: Describes how policing strategy operationalizes the presumption that Muslim identity correlates with terrorism, localizing it through deputized officers.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 328