Gang database made up mostly of young black, Latino men

Boston police are tracking nearly 5,000 people — almost all of them young black and Latino men — through a secretive gang database, newly released data from the department shows.Black people comprise about 25% of all Boston residents, Latinos about 20% and white people more than 50%.The racial disparity is "stark and troublesome," said Adriana Lafaille, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which, along with other civil rights groups, sued the department i