Racial Discrimination in NYPDs Gang Database

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 10 a.m.

b'Earlier this year, the NYPD revealed that 42,334 individuals were on its \\u201cgang database.\\u201d 95% of those listed are people of color, which raises all kinds of questions: How does the NYPD define \\u201cgang\\u201d and \\u201cgang members\\u201d? How is the list being used by the Department? To address some of these questions, and to talk about what\\u2019s being done to introduce transparency into the Department\\u2019s use of the database, community organizer and writer Josmar Trujillo and activist Taylonn Murphy join MacKenzie'