New York City's Department of Investigation has delayed release of a long-anticipated report on the NYPD's database of people with alleged gang ties. Critics of the database condemn it as unfair, inaccurate and racially discriminatory.
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The DOI is “diligently working” on the investigation and “is hopeful to issue its report early this year,” Dianne Struzzi, the agency’s director of communications, said in a statement. At a spring hearing, DOI Commissioner Jocelyn StrauberNo reason for the delay was provided.Anthony Posada, supervising attorney of the Legal Aid Society’s Community Justice Unit
The missed deadline sparked outrage among criminal justice reformers, who have been clamoring for the study's release. They view the report as imperative to bolstering accountability and transparency and condemn the database as unfair, inaccurate and racially discriminatory. “The city’s broken promises must end now,” Anthony Posada, supervising attorney of the Legal Aid Society’s Community Justice Unit in New York, said in a statement.
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