Came across this blog today that I feel may pique a few of our reader’s interest.

Some lowlights include:

…preventing labeled gang members from “standing, sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing, anywhere in public view or any place accessible to the public”

…most criminal activity involving graffiti, possession or sale of drugs and weapons, vandalism, assault and theft involving nonwhite assailants are labeled as gang-related.

Q: The method of documenting gang members appears to involve two entities: a beat officer that meets the suspect in the field and fills out a yellow gang suspect card, and Officer Joe Villanueva who inspects the card and decides whether or not to list the individual as a gang member. Is there another possible way to document gang members that involves another agency or part of the community in order to decrease the chance of a bias decision?
A: That sounds great in theory, but it just isn’t practical (WSPD Chief Drummond).

Comments?

UPDATE: or not. I guess we can scratch Arbitrary Gang Profiling off SinghCity’s list.