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Report on the controversal use of California's gang database. Some parents fear their kids are being unfairly labelled gang members and entered into this police database. Holly Kernan, of New California Media, reports:
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LEDE: CALIFORNIA HAS STRUGGLED WITH GANG VIOLENCE FOR DECADES. IT WAS THE FIRST STATE IN THE NATION, BACK IN THE LATE 80S, TO CREATE A COMPUTERIZED DATABASE
OF SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS. MANY OTHER STATES HAVE SINCE FOLLOWED SUIT, BUT CALIFORNIA'S GANG DATABASE REMAINS THE BIGGEST- WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND NAMES AND PHOTOS OF YOUTH FROM ACROSS THE STATE. NOW SOME PARENTS
ARE TAKING ISSUE WITH THE DATABASE, SAYING IT UNFAIRLY LABELS MINORITY YOUTH AS GANG MEMBERS. HOLLY KERNAN--OF NEW CALIFORNIA MEDIA--REPORTS FROM OAKLAND,
CALGANG IS THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION ON GANG MEMBERS, SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS AND WHAT ARE CALLED GANG ASSOCIATES--PEOPLE WHO HANG OUT WITH GANGS. LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS GO INTO NEIGHBORHOODS WITH GANG ACTIVITY TO GATHER INFORMATION SUCH AS NICKNAMES, ADDRESS, CAR TYPE, AND TATOOS. THEN THEY PUT THESE DETAILS INTO THE DATABANK SO THAT L...
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Hans Anderson
Posted on January 06, 2004 at 04:53 AM | Permalink
Review of Gang database report
This piece has aired on NPR, so you can feel confident in it's quality. It focuses on the California gang database -- the biggest of it's type in the country -- and how it may be doing as much harm to some innocent youths as it is doing good in putting a stop to gang activity. If you are doing a gang story, or your community is facing these issues, this story will fit (have to chop the lead-in). It will fit best to be Side B to a story where Side A is "Lets build a gang database like California did."