Gang Deconstruction

shirts and levis with upturned cuffs are also indicators of possible gang involvement,”
the site continues.
The website not only has racist descriptions of Black and Latino youth, but includes
ridiculously subjective details:
“Jewelry: May Be Expensive or Cheap, But The Gaudy Type is Preferred.”
Creating a sense of fear among the general population prevents workers of different
nationalities from uniting against common enemies.
The report shows that most young people who join gangs end up leaving the gang
within a year. But police profiling promotes the identification of ex-members as “gang
members” for the rest of their lives—affecting future job searches and often causing
conflict with people in different gangs.
“Young men of color are disproportionately identified as gang members and targeted for
surveillance, arrest and incarceration, while white—who make up a significant share of
gang members—rarely show up in accounts of gang enforcement efforts,” explains the
report.
It continues with a shocking fact: “The Los Angeles district attorney’s office found that
half of Black males between the ages of 21 and 24 had been entered into the county’s
gang data bases.”
The profiling of young people as gang members is directly related to the racist profiling
that law enforcement agencies carry out against people of color in general.
Black and Latino people suffer the most. But they are not the only oppressed people
under attack. Racist profiling of Arabs and Muslims is used to justify the U.S. occupation
of Iraq and the ongoing plans to dominate the people and resources of the Middle East.
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