Soft-on-crime City Council members want to delete the NYPD’s Gang Database, despite a surge in gang-affiliated migrants pouring into the Big Apple.
The database, which has been operational since 2013 and contains thousands of entries and intel — including distinctive tattoos — is considered a vital crime-fighting tool by the NYPD in the war against criminal groups and street gangs.
But left wing city pols contend the “secret” database demonizes minorities, and are trying a second time to push for legislation that scraps the NYPD’s Criminal Group Database database,
South Bronx Councilmember Althea Stevens re-introduced legislation originally pushed in 2022 by her East Village comrade Concilwoman Carlina Rivera, whose bill died in committe,
Stevens claimed the database subjects “black and brown” youth to “unclear criteria,” and sweeps up too many “innocent people. “I have seen the need to avoid labeling young people and the additional stigmas that come with these labels,” she said.
Law enforcement experts and the NYPD ripped the legislation as misguided.
“It’s more invaluable than before,” insisted John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor Michael Alcazar, a retired NYPD detective. “Now we have all these migrants. … You don’t have birth certificates, passports, so now we have to really use the database to gather information: their photographs, tattoos, their scars, their gang affiliation.”
The legislation is “taking a page from the same book” that brought the city bail reform, he said. “They [City Council] believe that certain segments of the population are being targeted by these databases. It is targeting the criminal population.”
Alcazar’s John Jay colleague, retired NYPD sergeant Joseph Giacalone, agreed.
“As New York City police officers are targeted by the recently immigrated Venezuelan gang members, certain members of the City Council are still pushing to remove the gang database. Let that sink in folks,” he said. “They would rather see cops shot in the street and New Yorkers robbed at alarming rates than to use common sense.”--->READ MORE HERE
A junkie horde has taken over an East Harlem block, brazenly shooting up and terrorizing businesses — right under the nose of a lefty city councilwoman who has cheered on woke harm reduction policies.
This week, The Post observed a half-dozen strung-out addicts shooting up less than 250 feet from Councilwoman Diana Ayala (D-Manhattan/Bronx) — East 116th Street office — with one woman shoving a needle into her neck as a young mother rushed past with her two young children.
“My son should not see that — it’s traumatizing,” East Harlem resident Donald Scott, 59, told The Post, adding he and his 16-year-old child have repeatedly “stepped over dead bodies” across their neighborhood.
“If [Ayala] is letting this go on, she should pay for my son’s therapy.”
East Harlem residents say their neighborhood’s daily horror show has worsened in recent years, in part thanks to the nearby OnPoint NYC overdose prevention center.
There, under the controversial idea of harm reduction, addicts are given clean syringes and paraphernalia, which they can use to shoot up outside or onsite under medical supervision.
Critics say this approach simply enables addicts, rather than treating their addiction.
Ayala quickly embraced the city’s decision to open the nation’s first safe injection site in 2021 just outside her district, which then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and other lefty pols promised would help address the spiraling opioid epidemic.
“She’s very sympathetic to [addiction], and my feeling is ‘Why do you think we have to live like this?’” said resident Jenny Scobel, 69.
“I can’t walk out my door and see somebody in between cars shooting up in their leg or their neck.”
OnPoint has received $1.38 million in taxpayer funding earmarked for programs to prevent and treat opioid abuse, although it has said it relies on private funding because it is not legally allowed to use public funds to operate an overdose prevention center. --->READ MORE HERE
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