Evidently, Chicago pledged to clean their “gang database” which has proven to be a tool of discrimination, at the very least. Gang databases need to be removed from law enforcement at the local level and quit possibly all law enforcement.
Either a person has a criminal record or not. Gangs don’t have Social Security Numbers and cannot commit infractions. Gangs are an understood group of people in most cases that can organize to commit crimes.
Criminal organization to commit crimes is racketeering. Either there is racketeering or not. Most so called gangs are usually compromised of young people affiliated for the sake of belonging. Crimes affiliated with gangs are random and exists in impoverished areas. There is no way a gang also is conducting racketeering. That is too sophisticated an operation.
There should be no gangland data base in Chicago or any place else. It is an unnecessary activity/classification that victimizes people and forces them into an identity rather than individuality.
