CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police claimed a database of Chicago gang members helped make the city safer – but it was so poorly maintained, and riddled with so many mistakes, that the committee that oversees the ...

Chicago Police are under pressure to explain a so-called gang database with nearly 130,000 names. Critics say the list is not transparent and could enable racial profiling. Here's Illinois state ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Police Department has announced an overhaul of their controversial gang database system. The new system is expected to launch Thursday and is called the "Criminal ...

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CHICAGO (AP) — A poorly managed police database of 130,000 purported street-gang members in Chicago is rife with errors and offers no practical way for those wrongly entered into it to purge their ...

Critics remain concerned by the Chicago Police Department’s impending relaunch of its much-criticized “gang database,” a tool intended to identify people with connections to street gangs, even after ...

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