CFJJ Report and video now available
On Wednesday night Citizens for Juvenile Justice unveiled its report on five thousand New Bedford Police Department interactions over five years. CFJJ's report documented extremely disproportionate rates of stops and surveillance on Black residents and revealed New Bedford Police Department's arbitrary and opaque criteria for adding youth to its gang database. The presentation by CFJJ's Joshua Dankoff outlined 8 main findings: (1) a decade after the Malcolm Gracia killing, the NBPD still has only a vague policy on field interrogations; (2) police interactions are focused on poor non-white communities; (3) Blacks and Hispanics are significantly over-policed; (4) 10 officers account...