The New York Police Department has once again come under fire over its treatment of the city’s homeless population. A complaint has been filed against the NYPD for forcing the homeless to ‘move along’ when they have not broken any laws. The civil rights group who filed the complaint argue that homeless people should not be discriminatorily targeted for law-enforcement, calling the procedure bias-based profiling, which is against the law RT reports: NYPD officers, seemingly at the direction of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, began an effort last summer to target the community of people living on the streets in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood, ordering them to move along and threatening arrests, tickets and destruction of property if the homeless refused. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed the complaint against the NYPD on Thursday, on behalf of Picture the Homeless, an advocacy group for and including street people.. The organization argues that so-called “move along” orders violate the Community Safety Act, a law passed in 2013 to ban discriminatory profiling within the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program and to establish oversight over the department. Housing status is included as one of the classes protected from “bias-based profiling” under the law. [...]