A pending bill would ban the department's gang database entirely, while another would restrict police’s ability to collect DNA from minors who have not been arrested.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Monday marked 22 years since two of New York’s Finest died in the line of duty while attempting to ...

New York City isn’t yet unsafe enough for the two dozen City Council progressives still pushing to kill the NYPD’s gang database. Officially the “Criminal Group Database,” it’s a purely ...

Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent ...

Kevin Catalina said he is going to concentrate on making the roads safer, lowering drug overdoses, suppressing street gang ...

City Council members and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are calling the NYPD’s gang database a civil rights abomination that must be obliterated. They’re wrong, wrong, wrong. The police ...

Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division was pulled from active investigations after appearing in a controversial rap video by S-Quire. The video, seen as degrading to women ...

Seven alleged members of the Bronx street gang Courtlandt Over Everything (COE) have been indicted in connection with a ...

This wasn’t by chance, but the result of the NYPD’s focused approach to gun violence, built on tools like the Criminal Group Database (CGD), often referred to as the gang database. Now, this progress ...

also known as the ‘gang database,’ and collecting DNA samples from minors on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at City Hall. (Emil Cohen / NYC Council Media Unit) The DNA bill would bar the NYPD from ...