CHICAGO
Stop Tracking Us: Local Organizing to Abolish the Gang Database
Gang databases have long been tools for social control used to track and criminalize communities of color. In Chicago, a study found that 95% of the individuals on the gang database were Black and Latinx.
For years, Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and Mijente had been leading a local campaign urging the city of Chicago expand what it means to be a “Sanctuary City” to protect immigrants and US born people of color, particularly those who are targeted by local police. The groups coalesced around the goal to expose and eliminate the gang database in Chicago.
Video by SoapBox Productions and Organizing.
ARTICLES
Press: FOIA Week of Action
Press: Call to Action: No New Gang Database in Chicago
Chicago Tribune: Coalition calls for an investigation of the Cook County gang database
Chicago Sun-Times: Aldermen, community activists demand that CPD abolish — not reform — gang database
WTTW: Critics Say Chicago Police Need to Rethink Tracking Gang Members, Curbing Violence
Block Club Chicago: Mayor Lightfoot Boosts Protection For Immigrants, But Collaboration Between Chicago Police And ICE Continues In Criminal Cases
CBS Chicago: City, Civil Rights Groups Seeking Settlement In Lawsuit Over Chicago Police Department’s Gang Database
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