Posted on 09/11/2017 12:11:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.
Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to “unintended consequences” and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations, The Oregonian reported.
“There are still criminal gang members. That doesn’t go away because we don’t have a gang designation,” said Capt. Mike Krantz, according to The Oregonian. “We’re not pretending gang violence doesn’t exist. We’re just taking this one thing away.”
City officials and community activists had long urged the bureau to stop attaching the gang designation to criminal suspects, claiming the practice disproportionately impacted people of color. A review of police data by The Oregonian last year found that 81 percent of the “criminal gang affiliates” in Portland’s database were racial or ethnic minorities.
“This is too long coming,” said Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the city’s police commissioner. “It was the right thing to do.”
Under the current policy, police officers can add someone to the gang database if the person self-identifies as a gang member, participates in a gang initiation ritual, commits a gang-related crime or displays two or more “observable signs” of gang membership. Neither a criminal conviction nor an arrest is required to attach a gang designation to a suspect’s file.
Portland police label about 100 people as gang members each year, according to The Oregonian. When an officer runs the name of a person who has been flagged as a gang member, the label will show up in a special report that includes any known information about nicknames, employers, schools, vehicles and associates.
Officers will no longer keep those reports and flags, says Krantz. Instead, they will record only alleged criminal conduct such as illegal weapons possession or involvement in shootings.
Police say the gang reports aren’t necessary because “new processes and technologies” allow officers to investigate crimes without the need to identify people as members of a gang.
“As times have changed, the Police Bureau in partnership with community members have realized being labeled a “gang member” can have a negative impact on the person who may be making attempts to overcome the life challenges they face,” the bureau said in a statement Friday.
Leftists are simply promoting their future fascist executors.
It was done in Bolshevik Russia for Trotzky, Iran Mullahs executing leftist leaders of the overthrow of the Shah etc...
Brings to mind that classic Newhart episode where the guys form gangs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBSqd7AS3Q4
Rumble scene at 16:13.
BTW, I didn’t realize until now that Henry Mancini did the theme music. How cool is that?
I posted this in the thread about the Antifa, BLM type protest in Portland last night.
The new police chief in Portland is a former assistant chief in Oakland, another left leaning city.
Her name is Danielle Outlaw.
I would just like to take a second to point out that the word “culture” is right smack dab in the middle of the word “multiculturalism”.
Antifa are predominantly white.
Yet another reason to avoid the big cities
That’s how FL solved their roach problem years ago. Renamed them palmetto bugs.
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I don’t recall Italian, Irish, or other immigrant gangs having their gang affiliations purged. They remain what they were/are. Gangs.
This happening as the debate about classifying the predominately white Antifa as a criminal gang is taking place around the country.
It’s hard to believe this isn’t satire.
One and the same in Portland
...had long urged the bureau to stop attaching the gang designation to criminal suspects, claiming the practice disproportionately impacted people of color.
Don't want that? Don't be disproportionately gang members.
When the police refuse to police.
Only ten percent of all documented gang members are white.
There are white gangs — Russian and Ukrainian mafias are particularly tough. Though would they be considered gangs or organized crime? Is there a difference?
“City officials and community activists had long urged the bureau to stop attaching the gang designation to criminal suspects, claiming the practice disproportionately impacted people of color. A review of police data by The Oregonian last year found that 81 percent of the “criminal gang affiliates” in Portland’s database were racial or ethnic minorities.”
If I get this stupid thinking correct, then “whites” should demand the criminal title of “mass murderer” or “serial killer” to such persons who have committed mass &/or serial murders, as most of them (from my recollection) have been “white”, and labeling those “white” criminals that way imposes a wrong social burden on the “white community” and particularly the “white” youth.
Next step is to start recruiting more white gang bangers for “balance”
The entire premise used to quit keeping the database represents a certain level of lying.
The database is an INTERNAL DATABASE, NOT a “published list”, so in what manner does keeping the database and how and why names are added to it IMPACT members of any community generally. It is not as if the police department sends out a list saying “here Portland are all the suspected gang members we have”.
Where would/could the impact of the database be noticed on any general community? Just because it exists?
Now, without that designation in that database, Portland police will not have it available when doing investigations or picking up suspects. They will not, as easily, know/realize someone is part of one of the gangs, and how the suspected activity is/was part of gang operation. How nice? FOR THE CRIMINALS.
Isn’t every VFW post and American Legion post considered a predominant white hate group? /sarcasm
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