The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.

For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members—and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration. Governor Kathy Hochul is joined by state ...

The statewide gang database has been in operation for 20 years, though it has garnered almost no outside attention or scrutiny. State Police staff designate people as gang members — including people ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up ...