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Inspector General Finds Chicago Gang Database Outdated, Inaccurate and Damaging
Chicago’s inspector general, Joe Ferguson, released a report Thursday highlighting concerns with the police’s so-called “gang database.”
Chicago police do not have proper standards in place to ensure the accuracy of the gang data they collect and share with more than 500 agencies, according to a Thursday report from the city’s inspector general.
The report released by the office of Joe Ferguson, the inspector general for the city of Chicago, highlighted major concerns regarding the lack of accuracy and transparency in the Chicago Police Department’s so-called “gang database.” Immigration officials, education agencies and the FBI accessed the database more than a million times over the last decade, the report said, though the community has long scrutinized it for being outdated and inaccurate.
“Our review concluded that CPD’s current gang information systems present certain risks that, if left unaddressed, will continue to undermine public trust and confidence in the police and, because of the broad perception and the lived experience of many, that the current system causes significant collateral consequences for individuals and communities,” the report stated.
The report noted that police in the last 20 years identified more than 134,200 people as gang members after arresting them, usually for petty crimes. But 15,000 of those entries did not list people’s gang membership or explain why they were listed as gang members. Nearly 1,000 people were listed with multiple genders, 80 people were entered as 0 years old, 90 had a birthdate before 1901 and thousands were identified as gang members despite not being arrested or accused of a crime.
“The so-called database raised concerns about how police officers perceive the community, citing entries where officers entered occupations for individuals that included ‘scum bag,’ ‘bum,’ ‘black’ and ‘turd.’
The report also said 91.3% of the more than 134,200 people in the database were black and Latinx men. Ferguson said inaccuracies in the database could adversely affect their lives, especially because of how many outside agencies have viewed the records. In lawsuits and hearings, people have alleged that federal immigration enforcement targeted them or that they lost job prospects because the database wrongly named them.
Ferguson also mentioned that the so-called database raised concerns about how police officers perceive the community, citing entries where officers entered occupations for individuals that included “scum bag,” “bum,” “black” and “turd.” The inspector general said those entries demonstrate how the database “can be employed to demean and dehumanize members of the public.”
“Community members reported personal accounts to [Ferguson] in which their experiences of CPD’s ‘gang database’-related strategies ― including misidentification, harassment, obstacles to immigration, and racial profiling ― furthered the historical divide between themselves and the police and contributed to inequities, especially in communities of color,” the report stated.
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Inspector General Finds Chicago Gang Database Outdated, Inaccurate and Damaging
Chicago’s inspector general, Joe Ferguson, released a report Thursday highlighting concerns with the police’s so-called “gang database.”
Chicago police do not have proper standards in place to ensure the accuracy of the gang data they collect and share with more than 500 agencies, according to a Thursday report from the city’s inspector general.
The report released by the office of Joe Ferguson, the inspector general for the city of Chicago, highlighted major concerns regarding the lack of accuracy and transparency in the Chicago Police Department’s so-called “gang database.” Immigration officials, education agencies and the FBI accessed the database more than a million times over the last decade, the report said, though the community has long scrutinized it for being outdated and inaccurate.
“Our review concluded that CPD’s current gang information systems present certain risks that, if left unaddressed, will continue to undermine public trust and confidence in the police and, because of the broad perception and the lived experience of many, that the current system causes significant collateral consequences for individuals and communities,” the report stated.
The report noted that police in the last 20 years identified more than 134,200 people as gang members after arresting them, usually for petty crimes. But 15,000 of those entries did not list people’s gang membership or explain why they were listed as gang members. Nearly 1,000 people were listed with multiple genders, 80 people were entered as 0 years old, 90 had a birthdate before 1901 and thousands were identified as gang members despite not being arrested or accused of a crime.
“The so-called database raised concerns about how police officers perceive the community, citing entries where officers entered occupations for individuals that included ‘scum bag,’ ‘bum,’ ‘black’ and ‘turd.’
The report also said 91.3% of the more than 134,200 people in the database were black and Latinx men. Ferguson said inaccuracies in the database could adversely affect their lives, especially because of how many outside agencies have viewed the records. In lawsuits and hearings, people have alleged that federal immigration enforcement targeted them or that they lost job prospects because the database wrongly named them.
Ferguson also mentioned that the so-called database raised concerns about how police officers perceive the community, citing entries where officers entered occupations for individuals that included “scum bag,” “bum,” “black” and “turd.” The inspector general said those entries demonstrate how the database “can be employed to demean and dehumanize members of the public.”
“Community members reported personal accounts to [Ferguson] in which their experiences of CPD’s ‘gang database’-related strategies ― including misidentification, harassment, obstacles to immigration, and racial profiling ― furthered the historical divide between themselves and the police and contributed to inequities, especially in communities of color,” the report stated.
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