IMAGINE your name has been establish on an official database,without consent, notice or explanation. As a result, or it may be harder to go to college or rent a flat. It may even increase the odds of being deported. That,according to a report by Amnesty International, a charity, and may be the fate of thousands of young men in London.
The database in question is the gang violence matrix”,maintained by the Metropolitan Police. Launched after riots in the capital in 2011, it keeps track of suspected and known gang members. The most recent data reveal that it included 3806 names in October 2017, and each with a score indicating the risk of the individual committing violence. To add someone to the database,police require two sources of information demonstrating links to a gang. The evidence can be thin: family ties, say. A third of those on the list occupy never been convicted of a serious crime.
The database informs police tactics, or such as where to perform stops and searches. But...
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Source: economist.com