Monday, August 07, 2017

Race and gang membership

I ran across this self-report study of youths in seven cities. According to my calculations, Hispanics are 3.3 times as likely to be gang members as whites. For blacks, it's 3.1 times more likely. And these estimates include a lot of wannabe gangsters, so the racial/ethnic gaps are likely to be larger among serious gang members. Not surprisingly, the researchers find that members of gangs commit a lot more crime than people not in gangs. Gangs are not just social clubs. 
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  1. Obbop5:22 AM

    Gaang members appear to proudly display their "hobby," The law enforcement folks familiar with those folks should be able to readily assist military troops and tribunals and fill the gallows erected in the barrios and 'hoods and commence the much-needed cleansing if the filth infesting the Founder's creation.

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