Are there differences between gangs based on ethnicity?
Almost all of them, in order to be labeled in this area, are doing some form of crime. What differences might occur are the hierarchy and how they’re run. You have some differences in where allegiances lie or who the shot-callers are. You might have a shot-caller in San Quentin (State Prison) … (that) may very well be able to call the shot from jail and it actually happens on the street. Some groups are more loosely based, so there’s not a sense of a hierarchy or one person that’s going to be able to call the shot. So you begin to see that and you begin to see some that have a cultural awareness. There are differences and there are similarities. San Diego Police reported last month that the number of crimes attributed to gang members was virtually the same in 2008 and 2009. Do you think the level of gang activity in San Diego also remained the same? The statistics have a way of being somewhat able to be manipulated by whoever is massaging those statistics. Whereas on one hand you did
