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Questioning the effectiveness of the gang database in preventing shootings
1:24:15
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Council Member Stevens challenges the NYPD on the effectiveness of the gang database in preventing shootings, given the continued occurrence of gun violence in communities of color. The exchange becomes heated as NYPD officials defend their practices and deny racial profiling allegations.
- Stevens questions how the database is working if shootings continue in profiled communities
- NYPD officials strongly refute claims of racial profiling
- Debate over the relationship between database inclusion and ongoing gun violence
Althea V. Stevens
1:24:15
Then so then my question is how is this working?
1:24:17
Because that to me shows that if you're saying you are profiling these people because it's racial profiling and then still those same people are still doing the shootings.
1:24:25
How is this working?
Michael Gerber
1:24:25
Council member, first of all, it is not racial profiling, and that is very unfair.
1:24:30
The the data I gave you is about individuals arrested for shootings and shooting victims.
Vickie Paladino
1:24:38
Mhmm.
Michael Gerber
1:24:38
There is nothing racial profiling about that.
Althea V. Stevens
1:24:41
No.
1:24:41
No.
1:24:41
I'm asking
Michael Gerber
1:24:42
It's not.
Althea V. Stevens
1:24:42
No.
1:24:42
No.
1:24:42
Listen to me.
1:24:43
I'm not talking about the shootings.
1:24:44
I'm asking you, the folks that you're observing, if the people that you're watching and have on the database are still you're saying are are mostly people of color and all this is happening, how is this working?
1:24:54
Can you give me data on how many shootings this has stopped in those those communities?
Michael Gerber
1:24:58
So so we're gonna give examples of situation which the criminal group database