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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Importance of reducing gun violence and the role of the criminal group database
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Michael Gerber emphasizes the NYPD's mission to reduce gun violence, highlighting the significant role of gang or crew activity in city shootings. He introduces the criminal group database as a crucial tool for this effort.
- Stresses that a substantial portion of gun violence in New York City is attributable to gang or crew activity
- Describes shootings as lives shattered, families in pain, and communities in grief
- Presents the criminal group database as a central repository for intelligence on street-level gangs and crews
Michael Gerber
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Reducing gun violence is at the heart of the NYPD's public safety mission, and a substantial portion of gun violence in New York City is attributable to gang or crew activity.
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Those shootings are lives shattered and lives lost, families and communities in pain and grief.
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The NYPD has a responsibility, a legal mandate and a moral obligation to use the tools at its disposal to solve those shootings and prevent more shootings.
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One of those tools is the criminal group database, the department's central repository for intelligence regarding street level gangs and crews.