The NYPD keeps ignoring a law that allows cyclists to pass through a red light on the "Walk" sign. Now, someone is making a federal case about it.

Plaintiffs claim Blacks and Latinos who have tattoos and wear gang-affiliated colors are being added to the database, which ...

A putative federal class-action lawsuit filed last week challenges ... and intervening quickly to prevent it,” it said. The lawsuit claims NYPD uses the database “to achieve the same unlawful ...

The New York City Police Department criminalizes Black and Latino New Yorkers by labeling them as gang members in a police ...

There are two sides to this story. On one side, there are civil rights advocates who claim police are using a gang database as a tool that discriminates against people of ...

The federal class action lawsuit filed by the Legal ... crimes to make the city safe,” Alcazar said. The lawsuit also alleges the NYPD practices and policies related to the database are in ...

Civil rights firms joined forces to sue New York City over the NYPD’s so-called “gang database,” alleging it’s discriminatory to Black and Latino New Yorkers.

A litany of legal groups officially sued the NYPD Wednesday over its controversial gang database, an index the police ...

Of the 13,200 people listed in the database as “active” members of a criminal group, 99% are Black and/or Hispanic, mostly ...

U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney also granted a request from the American Civil Liberties Union to turn the civil case ...