Virginia police task force drops use of controversial gang database
Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post
Jan. 28, 2021
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Northern Virginia Gang Task Force officers partner with ICE officers arrest an alleged MS-13 gang member in a Manassas, Virginia neighborhood in August 2017.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.
A Virginia gang task force has dropped use of a database that catalogues thousands of alleged gang members across the Washington region after activists raised concerns that minorities are disproportionately represented in it and its use is shrouded in secrecy.
The Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force is the first local law enforcement entity in the D.C. area to discontinue use of GangNet, according to the program which oversees use of the database in the region. The database has stirred controversy in a handful of jurisdictions across the country in recent years.
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In an exclusive report, NBC4 and Telemundo 44 speak with individuals who say they were falsely labeled as gang members and added to a controversial database used by law enforcement
Elected leaders and activists in Prince George s County fear a database police agencies use to track gang members is falsely labeling innocent people.
The database is called GangNET and it s used in police agencies to share information about potential gang members in some 32 regions across the country.
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