News Articles
- The Intercept: New York Schools Gang Unit Pushes The Criminalization Of Children (February 2020)
- The City: Report Calls on New NYPD Top Cop Dermot Shea to Abolish Gang Database (December 2019)
- The NY Daily News: NYPD Inspector General prodded on gang database concerns (December 2019)
- NY1: Activists Rally at City Hall to Get NYPD to Erase Gang Database (December 2019)
- Gothamist: Damning Report On NYPD Gang Database Increases Calls To End ‘A Tool Of Mass Criminalization’ (September 2019)
- The Intercept: NYPD Added Nearly 2,500 New People To Its Gang Database In The Last Year (June 2019)
- The Intercept: The Largest Gang Raid In Nyc History Swept Up Dozens Of Young People Who Weren’t In Gangs (April 2019)
- The NY Daily News: NYPD tells 350 people they don’t have the right to know if they’re in a gang database, Legal Aid says (April 2019)
- The Intercept: NYPD Gang Database Can Turn Unsuspecting New Yorkers Into Instant Felons (December 2018)
- CBS 2 New York: Questions Rise Over NYC’s Gang Database (June 2018)
- The Village Voice: A Year After NYC’s Biggest “Gang Raids,” Families Say It’s Just Stop And Frisk By Another Name (April 2017)
- Criminal justice activists press City Council to end NYPD gang database (https://gothamist.com/news/criminal-justice-activists-press-city-council-to-end-nypd-gang-database )
- Audit confirms over 99% of New Yorkers tracked by NYPD gang database are still Black or brown (https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/04/27/gang-database-black-and-brown/)
- Spotlight: The Dangers of Gang Databases and Gang Policing (https://theappeal.org/spotlight-the-dangers-of-gang-databases-and-gang-policing/)
- Advocates suspicious of NYPD’s gang database standards https://www.nydailynews.com/2018/06/12/advocates-suspicious-of-nypds-gang-database-standards/)
- Marne Lenox, NYPD Hasn’t Come Clean on its Gang Database, New York Daily News (August 9, 2018)
- Nick Rummell, Groups Demand to See Criteria for NYPD Gang Database, Courthouse News (August 8, 2018)
- Graham Rayman, EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD for Gang Database Guidelines, New York Daily News (August 8, 2018)
- Nick Pinto, A NYPD Disputes Gang Database Numbers — But its Math Doesn’t Add Up, The Intercept (June 14, 2018)
- Jake Offenhartz, The NYPD’s Expanding Gang Database Is Latest Form Of Stop & Frisk, Advocates Say, The Gothamist (June 13, 2018)
- Madina Toure, NYPD Faces Scrutiny Over How It Determines Who is a Gang Member, New York Observer (June 13, 2018)
- Graham Rayman and Rocco Parascandola, Advocates Suspicious of NYPD’s Gang Database Standards, New York Daily News (June 12, 2018)
- Mack DeGeurin, Stop-and-Frisk and Broken Windows Haven’t Gone Away — They’ve Moved Online, New York Magazine (June 12, 2018)
- Alice Speri, New York Gang Database Expanded By 70 Percent Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, The Intercept (June 11, 2018)
- Emmanuel Felton, Gang Databases are a Life Sentence for Black and Latino Communities, Pacific Standard (March 15, 2018)
- Max Rivlin-Nadler, Police Accountability and Public Defender Groups Demand Transparency on NYPD Gang Policing, The Appeal (February 12, 2018)
- NYC Council, NYPD brass duel over bills to eliminate gang database, testing teens for DNA, New York Daily News (February 2025)
- NYPD and NYC councilmembers face off over tracker of alleged gang members, Gothamist (February 2025)
- Advocates call for NYPD gang database to be abolished as police brass call it an instrumental tool: ‘This is about oppression’, AMNY (February 2025)
Opinion Pieces
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The NY Daily News: Surveillance system violates rights and is full of errors (July 2023)
- The New York Times (op-ed): Are You in a Gang Database? (February 2020)
- The NY Daily News: Erase the NYPD’s gang database. The city can be kept safe without unfair, discriminatory and unnecessary information gathering (Op-Ed – December 2019)
- The NY Daily News: NYPD hasn’t come clean on its gang database (Op-Ed – August 2019)
- NYPD gang database must be ended: Surveillance system violates rights and is full of errors (https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/07/06/nypd-gang-database-must-be-ended-surveillance-system-violates-rights-and-is-full-of-errors/)
- Why We Should Abolish the NYPD’s Gang Database, Not Reform It https://www.gothamgazette.com/130-opinion/11976-abolish-nypd-gang-database-reform
- Marne Lenox, Letter to the Editor: Database Fits the NYPD Profile, New York Daily News (June 18, 2018)
Reports
- Guilt by Association: HOW POLICE DATABASES PUNISH BLACK AND LATINX YOUTH (September 2023)
- DOI’S OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE NYPD ISSUES REPORT EXAMINING NYPD’S USE AND OPERATION OF THE CRIMINAL GROUP DATABASE
- CUNY School of Law Report on the Bronx 120 Mass “Gang” Prosecution By Babe Howell and Priscilla Bustamante
- GANG TAKEDOWNS IN THE DE BLASIO ERA: The Dangers of ‘Precision Policing’ By Josmar Trujillo and Alex S. Vitale
- Gang Policing: The Post Stop and Frisk Justification for Profile Based Policing K. Babe Howell CUNY School of Law
- YOUTH-LED COMMUNITY BUILDING IS VIOLENCE PREVENTION: A PROGRESS – Red Hook Initiative Public Safety Program
- Criminal Justice Case: NYPD’s “Gang” Policing Tactics
- What happens when you erase a gang database? By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD
- G.A.N.G.S Coalition Int. 798 Testimony 2.24.25 NYC City Council Public Safety Hearing 2.24.2025. Authored by Babe Howell