law & policy
What makes someone a gang member? For police, nearly anything.
In most of the country, police can catalog you as a gang member for virtually any reason—and you might never even know until you’re being punished for it.
2 posts in ‘gang databases’
In most of the country, police can catalog you as a gang member for virtually any reason—and you might never even know until you’re being punished for it.
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.