If things were not worse already individuals residing in gang affiliated neighborhoods are being labeled and punished for actions that have not even occurred yet. Police claims this as prevention and in Legitimated Suppression: Inner-City Mexican Americans and the Police, Robert J. Duran states, “The majority of gang members across the United States have been racially and ethnically labeled by police officers as Latino (47 percent) or African-American (31 percent), and they have been mostly poor (85 percent)” (Duran p.193). My problem with this quote is that the data gathered from police officers, is that it seems to be over-exaggerated because not every person of color is gang affiliated. Even though this data is problematic, we are still
