The Los Angeles Police Department will no longer use a controversial database tracking thousands of people accused of being gang members.
“Effective immediately, the Los Angeles Police Department (in conjunction with the Board of Police Commissioners) is placing a moratorium on all entries and use of the CalGang System,” department officials said in a statement released late Friday night.
The database was created around two decades ago, with LAPD and other police agencies entering thousands of names into the system in an attempt to map out networks of gang members.
In practice, police making frequent stops of residents in predominantly Latino and Black communities ended up entering family and friends of gang members, who might otherwise have no connection to local gangs.
A 2016 state audit found children as young as 1-year-old being put into the system.
After years of controversy, however, why LAPD ended its use of the database now is not clear.
In the statement, officials said LAPD was ending its use of the database after “recent audits and ongoing complaint investigations” called its accuracy into question.
LAPD did not say whether the findings of the 2016 audit was one of them. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in February said his office would review LAPD’s use of the system.
Becerra’s office did not return a request for comment Sunday. An LAPD spokeswoman did not have any immediate information on the suspension of the department’s use of the database.
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