In a blow to Gotham’s pro-criminal left, the city Department of Investigation’s five-year probe of the NYPD’s gang database found no “evidence of harm” to people with suspected gang ties.
Officially the Criminal Group Database, it’s a vital crime-fighting tool, especially now that the botched state criminal-justice “reforms” have empowered all the city’s gangs.
But the left, led by the Legal Aid Society, will never give up seeking to delete the whole thing.
Seizing on the DOI report’s call for greater transparency to boost the 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 safety.”
No: The report clearly rejected the allegation by LAS and other advocates that the database is a racist extension of “Stop, Question and Frisk.”
It’s a tool for the NYPD to target particular crimes, not any category of people, a tool the report notes does bring “public safety benefits.”
Particularly to the victims of gang crime across the five boroughs, the majority of whom are black and Hispanic — and also to the mostly minority kids the gangs relentlessly seek to recruit.
The left is pushing for the City Council to pass Int. 0360, a bill to scrap the database and prevent the NYPD from creating a replacement.
Any council member who backs that monstrosity might as well be a gang member him- or herself. The only change the DOI report should bring is a renewed NYPD drive to ensure the public realizes how vital the database is.