On February 21, 2019 the coalition to Erase the Cook County Gang Database successfully passed an Ordinance 19-0687, “To Prohibit the Use of the Terminated Regional Gang Intelligence Database (RGID) and Affiliated Data.” Since its passage Read more…
At least 195,000 individuals – 95% Black and Latinx – are listed in an error-filled database from which their names can never be removed. Chicago – The Chicagoans for an End to the Gang Database, a Read more…
What Superintendent Eddie Johnson Got Wrong on the Chicago Gang Database Yesterday Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson said he has a plan to fix the Chicago Gang Database listing out a number of reforms Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2018 The investigation comes after more than a year of campaigning for Chicago to be a real ‘Sanctuary’ for its residents by, amongst other demands, eliminating the Gang Database. Chicago, Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 06, 2017 Contact: Janae Bonsu, 917-439-1876, BYP100 Tania Unzueta, 773-387-3186, Mijente Report released today shows how the Chicago gang database decreases job opportunities for Black and Latino youth, increases levels of policing in Read more…
[12.6.17] After a settlement was reached between the City of Chicago and Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, organizers ask when the City review entire Gang Database process. Chicago – Today Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez and his family announced that the City Read more…
[12/4/17] An analysis of the Strategic Subject List reveals that 96% of the people identified as suspected gang members by the Chicago Police Department are Black and Latinx. (Chicago, Illinois) – In a recent analysis of the Read more…
[10/10/17] The art installation and protests put a spotlight on the $95 million police academy proposed by the Mayor, the killing of Black and Brown youth by the Police Department, and the City’s role in contributing to deportations of immigrants and Read more…
[9/18/17] Documents released to Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez’s family reveal the circumstances that led four Chicago Police Officers to identify the immigrant father of three as a gang member leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents (ICE) to Read more…
[9/20/17] Today OCAD is releasing the records of misconduct and abuse of six law enforcement agentsresponsible for for wrongfully identifying Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, an immigrant father of 3 from the Back of the Yards neighborhood, as a potential gang Read more…