If you go back to my first post, you'll see in the very first sentence I acknowledge that their reasons may be quite bad. An educated guess would be that some students at these universities allege that they have heard extremist remarks from members of these groups, and called the cops.
While your point is valid, I am having a discussion with someone who refuses to acknowledge that other reasons exist, who asserts innocence and claims he need not prove his assertion, and who keeps claiming that "all" Muslims are being surveilled. I feel like if there's a valid point to be made here, it can be made absent such hyperbole.
My own view of the situation is that this is really a matter of government accountability for how they are spending our tax dollars. No doubt the NYPD has a terrorism division/task force these days with its own budget that is probably sizable for obvious political reasons, and they conduct these activities with low success probability because they need something to do with that budget and there isn't anything more compelling. If this is the best they can do with the money, then maybe their budget needs to be re-assessed.
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