A spreadsheet of the MPD database shared internally the next month included a supposed gang member who was less than 1 year old, as well as 2, 3, 5, and 6-year-olds. Yet the gang database Hall helped build suffered from many of the same deficiencies as the California database. “Haha no I created it after I went through all the records,” Hall said. “As long as you don’t have any one year olds in there,” the colleague replied, adding a winking face emoticon. “See this is why I built the gang database!! Im the savior of this unit!” he emailed a colleague. Hall, a main developer of the MPD’s own gang database, laughed off the administrator’s concerns. The link was eventually forwarded to Daniel Hall, the intelligence branch’s top civilian analyst. The article “raised a lot of interesting issues,” the administrator said. The article was about an audit of California’s statewide database of gang members the database, the audit found, was riddled with civil rights violations and errors, including 42 instances in which the supposed gang member’s age when they were added was less than 1 year old. In August 2016, an administrator for Washington, D.C.’s, Metropolitan Police Department emailed a link to a news article to a colleague in the department’s Criminal Intelligence Branch.
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