DATABASED Report
April 2025Documenting the impacts of racist gang profiling and surveillance in Grahame Park Estate.
Published in 2025 by the #EraseTheDatabase Collective, DATABASED examines the impacts of racist "gang" profiling and surveillance on young people living on Grahame Park Estate. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 4FRONT members, lived experience testimony, Freedom of Information requests and policy analysis, the report documents how policing, local authorities and multi-agency data systems criminalised young people simply because of who they were, where they lived and who they knew. Preserved here is a collective record of the realities of racialised surveillance and a call to dismantle the systems that continue to reproduce harm under the guise of public safety.
“My justice would be for the police to stop harassing me, just stop all of these searches...They shouldn’t just be harassing young Black people.”