NYPD Added Nearly 2,500 New People to Its Gang Database in the Last Year
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/06/28/nypd-gang-database-additions
The New York Police Department is still listing children as young as 13 in its secret gang database, police officials told a New York City Council committee yesterday. The database is growing, currently including 18,084 people, up 2 percent from last June, when the NYPD last testified about the database. The increase came despite the removal of some 2,125 names from the registry — because the police added nearly 2,500 people to the database. Oleg Chernyavsky, head of legislative affairs for (...)