Gang Databases Are a Life Sentence for Black and Latino Communities

March 15, 2018
Pacific Standard

...Both the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking the New York Police Department to outline, among other things, how exactly they define the terms "gang" and "crew," as well as whether there is any mechanism for challenging one's inclusion in the database. ...

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March 19, 2018