STOP's Alissa Johnson discusses the racism of gang policing and how "reasons as innocuous as wearing the wrong clothes, staying out late, attending the Puerto Rican Day parade" land New Yorkers on #NYPD's gang database. #EraseTheDatabase
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27 Oct 2025
New Yorkers turned out in force, now the City Council must act.
Call your Council Member and urge them to co-sponsor Intro 798 — the bill to abolish the Database and stop any replacement from being created. bit.ly/48MXUha
#EraseTheDatabase #Intro798
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24 Oct 2025
Gang policing, we don’t need them, what we want is total freedom!
NY1: Protesters call on city to abolish 'gang database' after new report
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23 Oct 2025
The data doesn’t lie. The NYPD’s “gang database” is 99% Black and Latino.
We’re rallying Thursday, Oct. 23, 5PM @ One Police Plaza to call on City Council to pass #Intro798. Join us. #EraseTheDatabase
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16 Oct 2025
The NYPD’s gang database doesn’t protect us—it profiles us. Even after “reforms,” 98% of people listed are Black or Latino. Real safety means investment, not surveillance. Pass Intro 798 #EraseTheDatabase #Intro798 @LegalAidNYC
@STOPSpyingNY @NAACP_LDF
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Flawed surveillance is especially harmful in an era of mass deportation.
The NYPD's "gang database" casts a wide net in its quest for precision policing, but still disproportionately impacts New Yorkers of color.
#EraseTheDatabase before it's too late.
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30 Apr 2025
“The NYPD’s Gang Database is a dressed-up tool for racially profiling Black and Latino New Yorkers, particularly youth,” said Anne Venhuizen, Supervising Attorney in the Impact Litigation Practice at The Bronx Defenders. @BronxDefenders #erasethedatabase
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14 Mar 2025
The NYPD’s Gang Database is a digitized version of Stop and Frisk—another tool of racial profiling that criminalizes Black and brown communities.
The City Council has the power to end this harm. Pass Intro 798. #EraseTheDatabase
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26 Feb 2025
Shame on councilmember @VickieforNYC for fear mongering against our immigrant communities by encouraging the usage of law enforcement databases as a tool to criminalize these populations. For a country founded by immigrants, we sure don’t know how to treat them. #erasethedatabase
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26 Feb 2025
We are proud to stand with the Public Advocate as we work to abolish this racist database! #erasethedatabase
"We should be focusing our resources on strengthening communities and supporting young people who are at risk for violence."
The Public Advocate joined the @NYCCouncil to call for an end to the NYPD's Criminal Group Database.
#EraseTheDatabase
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26 Feb 2025
Our first panel included Kraig Lewis arrested during the Bronx 120. As well as a powerhouse group of advocates include Babe Howell, Anthony Posada, Vic Dempsey, and Aaliyah Guillermo-Nickens. #erasethedatabase
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26 Feb 2025
New research shows that the elimination of gang databases in Portland and Chicago did not result in an increase in crime, refuting claims that such databases reduce crime. #erasethedatabase naacpldf.org/what-happens-wh…
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The City Council must pass Intro 798 to abolish the NYPD Gang Database.
The Database targets Black and Brown young people:
99% of people in the database are Black and/or Latino.
Children as young as 13 are included in the database.
#Erasethedatabase
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20 Feb 2025
NYPD’s so-called “gang database” unfairly targets Black and Latinx New Yorkers, including children as young as 11. Rally to #EraseTheDatabase Feb. 24th, 9 AM at City Hall. Please RSVP using this link. @GangScoalition
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16 Dec 2024
Councilmember @althea4theBX brings some passion to discussion of the injustices of proactive NYPD practices towards youth of color. #ErasetheDatabase
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16 Dec 2024
Out supporting the @GangScoalition and their demand to #ErasetheDatabase w @tiffany_caban @CMAlexaAviles @JumaaneWilliams @dr_yusefsalaam.
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Today, we moderated a session at @systemicjustic_’s ‘Community Visions for Liberation’:
“#EraseTheDatabase: Challenging racist narratives and evolving police tactics”
Thanks to everyone for attending and for your thoughtful input.
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16 May 2024
⚡Speaker Panel: Katrina Ffrench (@FfrenchKatrina) of @UnjustUK, Audrey Cherryl Mogan (@acmogan) of Garden Court, Sarah Flanagan of @hodgejonesallen & Jude Lanchin of @BindmansLLP. Moderator: Cyrilia Knight (@cyriliadavies) of Saunders Law.
#ErasetheDatabase
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16 May 2024
📣 It's TODAY: #EraseTheDatabase Documentary Screening & Legal Panel Discussion 📣
We are excited to be hosting @UnjustUK & @EraseDatabaseUK Collective's event on the Gangs Matrix & how lawyers can help those affected obtain justice.⚖️
Tickets below 🔽🎟️eventbrite.com/e/erasethedat…
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7 Mar 2024
It's still true. The gang database should be dismantled. #EraseTheDatabase #bospoli
31 Jan 2022
Hopefully, @MayorWu will keep her campaign promise and begin the process to abolish Boston’s gang database without further delay, writes @Kennedy_School’s Sandra Susan Smith and Felix Owusu and @NewReentry’s Stacey Borden. #bospoli trib.al/I5gE4qi
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