Councilmembers Tiffany Cabán, Alexa Avilés and Sandy Nurse rallied with activists against the NYPD’s gang database last Wednesday at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
The trio are co-sponsoring Int 0360-2022, a recently introduced bill which would not only abolish the classified list, but prevent the city from implementing future replacements.
In 2019, ex-Police Commissioner Dermot Shea admitted 99% of the database was composed of Black and brown New Yorkers while he was still serving as NYPD Chief of Detectives. “We began to get active in social justice, in protesting against police brutality,” he said. “And because of that, we began to get surveilled by the police. Our lives were turned upside down. There wasn’t surveillance by the police prior to us becoming active in social justice. It was because we got involved. It was because of the activism that then we became a threat.
At Brooklyn Borough Hall, the activists were operating with a home court advantage. Current Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso penned a bill attempting to abolish the gang database last year while he was still a council member. This past Tuesday, the NYPD promoted Oleg Chernyavsky, a proponent of the gang database, to chief of staff.
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