>> In a city, I'd bet it's statistically likely that a tagger has a gang affiliation. There are laws on the books for tagging and laws on the books for gang af

>> In a city, I'd bet it's statistically likely that a tagger has a gang affiliation. There are laws on the books for tagging and laws on the books for gang affiliation. Specifically, laws indicate what can and can not be legally done by an individual or group. They specifically do not talk about the statistical likelihood that since an individual is alleged to have done X they likely also did Y and so we can prosecute for Y. One of the neat things about the law is that we are not supposed to apply laws based on the facts and not our superstitions of the types of associations we attribute to a person who looks a certain way or who lives in a certain place. Similarly, police don't get to do whatever they want to protect an arbitrary group of citizens from another arbitrary group of citizens. Legislatures don't get to decide that certain citizens have more rights, or more claim on the justice system, than other citizens, for any reason at all. One of the great things about America is that over time, we get closer to achieving a usable reference implementation of a usable system of justice.