First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision
9 February 2022
9 February 2022
A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are just extensions of biased policing efforts. People are placed in gang databases for numerous, incredibly stupid reasons. People are designated gang members simply for living, working, and going to school in areas where gang activity is prevalent. Infants have been added to gang databases because cops can't be bothered to perform any due diligence. There's no way for people to know they've been designated as gang-affiliated and, worse, there's often ...
First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision
A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are just extensions of biased policing efforts. People are placed in...
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