A report found that insubstantial evidence, such as the use of certain emojis in social media posts, is enough to land someone in the NYPD’s database of people with suspected gang ties.
– as insufficient and overly gentle toward the police. They said the department’s report sometimes minimized and obscured its own damning findings.
“Anyone who describes this report as ‘lax towards the NYPD’ has not read the 91-page report,” Struzzi said.Investigators suggested 17 changes aimed at clarifying policies for officers and the public alike on the Criminal Group Database, as it’s officially called. It includes data on some 16,000 people, 99% of whom are Black or Latino, according to the report.
One of the report’s main criticisms is that even scant or insubstantial evidence, such as the use of certain emojis in social media posts or appearing in a photograph with known gang members, is enough to land someone in the database. Children as young as 11 or 12 were added to the database, but later removed.
A key finding of the report – of no “evidence of harm" linked to the database – stood in contrast to years of concerns voiced by people on the list and their attorneys that individuals on the database are subjected to extra surveillance and prosecution. That assertion is misleading, said Babe Howell, a CUNY law professor.
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