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FOIA Week of Action: Find Out If CPD Added Your Information To Their Gang Database

From November 8 through November 23, join one of the many FOIA workshops around the city to find out if your information is on the Chicago Police Department’s gang database. [ Why is this important? Read more…

By Wences, 1 year ago November 6, 2019
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Accountability After Abolition – Report by the Policing Research Group in Chicago

In response to community demands for public accountability and for a responsible process of abolition that provides restitution to people harmed by the database, the Policing in Chicago Research Group at the University of Illinois Read more…

By Wences, 2 years ago May 14, 2019
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CALL TO ACTION: No New Gang Database in Chicago

CALL TO ACTION No New Gang Database in Chicago Submit comments TODAY against a new gang database in Chicago and call your Alderman to stop the Chicago Police Department from moving forward. The comment period Read more…

By Tania Unzueta, 2 years ago April 29, 2019
Reports

New Report on Regional Gang Intelligence Database

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…

By Wences, 2 years ago March 26, 2019
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Community-Driven Federal Class Action Lawsuit & Report Targets Chicago Police’s Inaccurate, Racially Discriminatory Gang Database

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…

By Tania Unzueta, 3 years ago June 19, 2018
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What Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s Got Wrong on the Chicago Gang Database

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…

By Wences, 3 years ago April 12, 2018
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City of Chicago Under Review by OIG for Use of Gang Database

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…

By admin, 3 years ago March 22, 2018
Press

New Report on Gang Database Details Harms to Chicago Residents

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…

By admin, 3 years ago February 9, 2018
Press

CITY OF CHICAGO ADMITS ERROR IN IMMIGRANT FATHER’S INCLUSION IN GANG DATABASE

[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…

By admin, 3 years ago January 29, 2018
Press

Chicago Gang Database Targets Black and Latino Men [Infographics]

[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…

By admin, 3 years ago January 29, 2018

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