New York City isn’t yet unsafe enough for the two dozen City Council progressives still pushing to kill the NYPD’s gang database. Officially the “Criminal Group Database,” it’s a purely ...

“Abolishing the NYPD gang database is about creating safer communities ... supervising attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Community Justice Unit. But police officials said there are strict ...

In a subsequent press conference, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that officers assigned to a joint NYPD and Homeland Security Violent Gang Unit federal task force were on West 24th Street ...

eventually becoming the commanding officer of the NYPD gang unit. "At that time in Queens, we were really focused on an emerging gang called MS-13," Catalina said. "In the early part of my gang ...

City Council members and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are calling the NYPD’s gang database a civil rights abomination that must be obliterated. They’re wrong, wrong, wrong. The police ...

New York City councilmembers sparred with police officials on Monday over a pair of bills that would abolish the NYPD’s gang tracker and prohibit the department from collecting DNA from minors ...

also known as the ‘gang database,’ and collecting DNA samples from minors on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at City Hall. (Emil Cohen / NYC Council Media Unit) The DNA bill would bar the NYPD from ...

Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division was pulled from active investigations after appearing in a controversial rap video by S-Quire. The video, seen as degrading to women ...

This wasn’t by chance, but the result of the NYPD’s focused approach to gun violence, built on tools like the Criminal Group Database (CGD), often referred to as the gang database. Now, this progress ...

According to federal officials, Mestre, who served with the NYPD ... with the unit centered on reducing gun violence in the area, much of which involved the Bronx-based Shooting Boys gang.