“The gang initiations are very real and we must practice safety at all costs,” a portion of the e-mail forwarded to me in late November reads. “The e-mails and text messages we are receiving about the killing of women during Halloween night is a real initiation.”
The original e-mail was sent by a woman no doubt concerned that gang members were singling out members of her gender for attack. That should come as no surprise; gang members by their very nature are poltroonish. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t find it necessary to join a gang.
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