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Six years of tireless organizing by a coalition of grassroots activists led to this month’s victory in Chicago.

The department’s database violates the civil rights of Black and Hispanic young people by being too quick to add names and too slow to remove them, putting youth at risk of false arrest and wrongful deportation.

NEW YORK — The NYPD gang database violates the civil rights of Black and Hispanic young people much like the department’s much-maligned “Stop and Frisk” policy, a new report released Tuesday shows. The gang database, which the NYPD’s own inspector general found fault with, “typecast minority youths as gang members without evidence, putting them at risk of false arrest and wrongful ...

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In a blow to Gotham’s pro-criminal left, the city Department of Investigation’s five-year probe of the NYPD’s gang database found no “evidence of harm” to people with suspected gang ties.

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They call the listing of suspected gang members' names, also known as the Criminal Group Database, part of a failed "toolbox" that harms Blacks and Latinos.

Advocates criticized the delay of the report, which has apparently taken four years for the Department of Investigations to complete.

Department of Investigation Confirms Probe of NYPD Gang Database After Advocates Rally Share this story Eileen Grench/THE CITY On Tuesday morning, a coalition of anti-surveillance advocates and public defenders gathered in front of the NYPD’s Inspector General’s office to demand — once again — an investigation into cops’ gang database. On Tuesday evening, the city Department of Investigation told THE CITY that it started a probe of the infamous Criminal Group Database three years ago...