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Two Los Angeles police officers appeared at Melina Abdullah’s front door with an unsettling request. They wanted to question her youngest child about gang affiliation.
The officers left when Abdullah said she was calling a lawyer, never explaining exactly why they needed to interrogate her son — who, at age 6, was midway through the first grade.
Abdullah suspects this 2016 visit from the gang unit occurred because of her son’s inclusion in CalGang, California’s statewide database of suspected gang members and their associates. Georgia recently launched a similar database, in which it expects to compile information on tens of thousands of people. But recent events in Los Angeles suggest CalGang may represent less of a model than a cautionary tale.
From Los Angeles, a cautionary tale for Georgia’s new gang database
First of all, you have to go to where the crime is and that has to be where race exits. Secondly, if you live on a street or in an area where there are gangs you can't nail people for saying hello/goodbye etc. and calling them an associate.
The officers left when Abdullah said she was calling a lawyer, never explaining exactly why they needed to interrogate her son — who, at age 6, was midway through the first grade.
Abdullah suspects this 2016 visit from the gang unit occurred because of her son’s inclusion in CalGang, California’s statewide database of suspected gang members and their associates. Georgia recently launched a similar database, in which it expects to compile information on tens of thousands of people. But recent events in Los Angeles suggest CalGang may represent less of a model than a cautionary tale.
From Los Angeles, a cautionary tale for Georgia’s new gang database
First of all, you have to go to where the crime is and that has to be where race exits. Secondly, if you live on a street or in an area where there are gangs you can't nail people for saying hello/goodbye etc. and calling them an associate.
