Many individuals on the fringe of gang involvement are reluctant to identify themselves as gang members. They often state that their friends are gang members but they are not. However, rival gang members, shooting from a speeding car, do not make a distinction between a gang member and his associates. Dress Black and white gangs are individualistic in their dress. They tend to identify themselves by adopting certain colors and sports apparel from specific teams.
Most gang members carry pagers.
They will generally wear T-shirts, thin belts, baggy pants with a black or blue bandanna tied around the forehead similar to a sweatband. Without question, it decreases property values in residential neighborhoods and negatively affects industrial and commercial areas. Of greater concern is the inherent violence associated with gang graffiti. They also use it to advertise the gang's status or power and to declare their own allegiance to the gang. When a neighborhood is marked with graffiti indicating territorial dominance, the entire area and its inhabitants become targets of violence.