#EraseTheDatabase Documentary
November 2023Exposing the realities of gang policing and surveillance
Created to launch the #EraseTheDatabase campaign, this documentary brings together the people behind a growing movement to expose the harms of the Metropolitan Police's gang "policing" and dismantle the unlawful Gangs Matrix - a database that labelled thousands of people as gang members. Produced by the Erase the Database Collective - a partnership between UNJUST, 4FRONT and Tottenham Rights - it features activists, community leaders, academics, lawyers and 4FRONT members, combining political analysis with first-hand accounts of what it meant to be labelled a "gang member" and live under unlawful police surveillance. In February 2024, following years of collective organising and legal challenge, the Metropolitan Police scrapped the Gangs Matrix.
“Once a young person has been labelled a gang member, it impacts every area of their life”