Archive for November 28th, 2005

Tennis Shoes on Telephone Wires is Gang Related?

Do we have definitive evidence that shoefiti can correlate with gang activity? Decide for yourself. Here’s a quote from an article called YOUTH AND GANGS on CommunityInterest.org (the site for Teachers and Students for School Civility ):
Signs and Symbols. Generally speaking, youth who belong to gangs tend to
advertise their gang status, both by physical signs [...]

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East Coast / West Coast Shoes on Power Lines Opinions

Brownstoner.com picked up on the same NY Times article we mentioned last week, and gathered some great comments from people representing both coasts.
East Coast:
growing up in the LES and queens, i recall a lot of this. it’s also to mark the passing of a friend due to drugs, murder, etc…

West Coast:
The sneaker thing definitely can [...]

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