Larry Sanders is a gang interventionist contracted by the city of Los Angeles to work for the Summer Night Lights program, an anti-violence initiative. In April, Sanders was stopped by the LAPD's gang task force and added to the city's gang database.
, which would narrow the criteria used to label someone as a gang member or associate. If approved, the rules would take effect Jan. 1. The DOJ has proposed removing several of the nebulous categories that swept Sanders up, including hanging out in gang areas and associating with gang members.
In practice, the term is problematic and leaves room for broad interpretation, Garcia-Leys said. He noted that previous clients accused of admitting gang membership said police asked them, “Where are you from?” The clients’ neighborhood, which was also the name of a gang, was taken as admitting membership.
“The idea is to catch murderers and criminals, not to persecute people,” McBride said. “Nobody knows you’re in there but the gang cop.”Such people are likely to be detained longer, more likely to be searched, arrested and even insulted and threatened by officers, he said. If accused of a crime, they are also likely to receive increased charges, known as gang enhancements, and a higher bail amount than those not associated with gangs.
Teenagers only marginally involved with a gang tend to identify more with the group after interaction with police, Garcia-Leys said. When they are “treated like gang members, these young men have this attitude…'well if that’s how you’re going to treat me, I guess that’s who I am,’” he said. People outside Nipsey Hussle's Marathon clothing store for his funeral procession in Los Angeles on April 11, 2019.Such labeling can trap people in the system, allowing their past to define their future, Sanders said.
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