In a blow to Gotham’s pro-criminal left, town Division of Investigation’s five-year probe of the NYPD’s gang database discovered no “proof of hurt” to folks with suspected gang ties.
Formally the Prison Group Database, it’s a significant crime-fighting software, particularly now that the botched state criminal-justice “reforms” have empowered all town’s gangs.
However the left, led by the Authorized Assist Society, won’t ever hand over looking for to delete the entire thing.
Seizing on the DOI report’s name for larger transparency to spice up the general public’s understanding of what the database represents, the LAS’s Anthony Posada pretended it proves the database “is overtly racist, procedurally indefensible and makes little to no contribution to public security.”
No: The report clearly rejected the allegation by LAS and different advocates that the database is a racist extension of “Cease, Query and Frisk.”
It’s a software for the NYPD to focus on specific crimes, not any class of individuals, a software the report notes does deliver “public security advantages.”
Significantly to the victims of gang crime throughout the 5 boroughs, nearly all of whom are black and Hispanic — and likewise to the principally minority children the gangs relentlessly search to recruit.
The left is pushing for the Metropolis Council to go Int. 0360, a invoice to scrap the database and forestall the NYPD from making a alternative.
Any council member who backs that monstrosity may as nicely be a gang member him- or herself. The one change the DOI report ought to deliver is a renewed NYPD drive to make sure the general public realizes how very important the database is.
