A database used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and track people linked with gang violence is being decommissioned and replaced following long-running controversy over its discriminatory impacts on young black people, but campaigners warn that racial discrimination will persist with new tool
The Gangs Violence Matrix was collated in 2012 in the wake of the London riots the previous year and at its peak in August 2017 there were 3,881 people on the database.
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