The department’s database violates the civil rights of Black and Hispanic young people by being too quick to add names and too slow to remove them, putting youth at risk of false arrest and wrongful deportation.
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NEW YORK — The NYPD gang database violates the civil rights of Black and Hispanic young people much like the department’s much-maligned “Stop and Frisk” policy, a new report released Tuesday shows. The gang database, which the NYPD’s own inspector general found fault with, “typecast minority youths as gang members without evidence, putting them at risk of false arrest and wrongful .