A rally outside NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan Thursday demanded the city abolish what they call a harmful and racist policing tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy surveilling, targeting and cataloging Black and Brown youth, this is harming our communities. It\u2019s putting a target on youth,\u201d Anthony Posada of the Legal Aid Society said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
G.A.N.G.S. Coalition is one advocacy group pushing for the passage of Intro 798, a City Council bill that would end the NYPD\u2019s Criminal Group Database
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Their call follows a city watchdog report that found the NYPD only partially implemented reforms meant to add oversight and transparency
The NYPD says the database helps investigators solve crimes, prevent violence, and inclusion doesn\u2019t mean arrest or charges<\/p>\n
The advocacy group \u201cG.A.N.G.S. Coalition\u201d is one group pushing for the passage of Intro 798, a City Council bill that would end the NYPD\u2019s Criminal Group Database, often referred to as the gang database.<\/p>\n
Their call follows a city watchdog report finding the NYPD only partially implemented reforms meant to add oversight and transparency.<\/p>\n
\u201cCritics can shout \u2018abolish it\u2019 all they want, but let\u2019s think about the families burying their kids or the innocent bystander,\u201d Deputy Commissioner for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD says the database helps investigators solve crimes, prevent violence, and inclusion doesn\u2019t mean arrest or charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey fail to acknowledge 96% of the shooting victims in the city are persons and people of Black and Brown color,\u201d Daughtry said.<\/p>\n
The report shows more than 8,500 names remain, a 60% drop since late 2022, though still mostly Black and Latino men.<\/p>\n
Advocates argue it\u2019s profiling, not prevention.<\/p>\n
\u201c60% \u2014 that\u2019s a fascinating variable, right? It says why was 60% of those names on there,\u201d Councilmember Alex Aviles said.<\/p>\n
The inspector general says the NYPD has made progress, but still hasn\u2019t met every reform promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rally outside NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan Thursday demanded the city abolish what they call a harmful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-14489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-louis-finley","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-public-safety","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}