The News and Observer is running a story today (8/24) called "What is a Gang ?" A lot of the information, readers of this blog saw here months ago but four months after the recent "anti-gang" hoopla , the main stream media finally asked the question that should have been asked in the beginning...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1191367.html
"What defines a gang member?"
A sidebar story also sheds some light on the mysterious NC gang data base, "NC gangnet."
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/q/story/1191331.html
They did use one of my quotes in the story.