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gang databases

2 posts in ‘gang databases’

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.

Sharon Brett

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Big Data

Transgressing Borders

Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.

Ana Muñiz

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