"Guilt By Association, How Police Databases Punish Black and LatinX Youth"
"Executive Summary:"
"Police increasingly replace stop-and-frisk practices with databases that crudely profile Black and Latinx youth based on their neighborhoods, peer groups, and clothing."
"These databases ruin lives: police typecast minority youths as gang members without evidence, putting them at risk of false arrest and wrongful deportation."
"Many police departments refuse to implement due process safeguards despite clear evidence that their databases are based on racial profiling, not evidence."
"Even the most rigorous safeguards would be insufficient to mitigate the full range of harms that these databases pose. They must be eliminated in their entirety."
"According to the NYPD, ludicrous non-criminal criteria including the activities of one’s cousins, neighbors, or classmates, the location of one’s home, and the colors of one’s clothing are enough to land a person in a gang database.”
https://www.stopspying.org/guilt-by-association
"LAPD Officers Accused of Falsely Labeling People as Gang Members Now Face Charges...Prosecutors have alleged three Los Angeles Police Department officers conspired to submit false information about innocent motorists and pedestrians stopped during crime suppression patrols."
"NBC4’s I-Team first reported in January that more than a dozen LAPD officers were under investigation for allegedly submitting field interview reports that falsely labeled people they questioned as gang members, data that was later added to a statewide law enforcement database of gang intelligence information called 'Cal-Gangs.' "
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/lapd-officers-charged-false-data-police-patrol-gang-members/2394068/
"Parents angry after finding children's names on police 'gang lists' "
https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/parents-angry-after-finding-childrens-names-on-police-gang-lists/1244939/
There are many other similar cases of police departments throughout the country falsely listing young men of color on gang databases.
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