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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bloodshed devastated neighborhoods, particularly in Brooklyn and the Bronx, where entrenched gang rivalries made the violence particularly intense. Since then, Gotham has slowly returned those ...

Mauro takes viewers for an exclusive ride-along with NYPD Assistant Chief Jason Savino to show just how law enforcement in the Big Apple is collaborating with the police in the gang crime nexus of ...