The Third Component of Moral Panic

The third component of moral panic is a disproportionate response. Half the cities set up dedicated gang units in the 19 nineties. The crips per we you don't have to be trained rig and so another thing that i feel like we should mention now is that at the time when gangs were tripling, quadrupling everywhere, violent crime was falling. In denver, the year of the summer of violence, 74 homicides. And the next year had even fewer homicides. So at the same time you have fallin crime, falling violence, you have this ramp up in responding to this completely made up spectre of street gang.