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Advocates call for NYPD gang database to be abolished as police brass call it an instrumental tool: ‘This is about oppression’

By Dean Moses Posted on

Criminal justice advocates demanded on Monday that the NYPD get rid of its controversial gang database, alleging it contributes to discriminatory policing targeting Black and Brown New Yorkers. 

Top police brass, including Commissioner Jessica Tisch, have repeatedly cited the department’s Discriminatory Criminal Group Database as an instrumental tool used to track and ultimately arrest trigger pullers who open fire in New York communities.

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Advocates call for NYPD gang database to be abolished as police brass call it an instrumental tool: ‘This is about oppression’

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