Anonymous wrote:My point is that we used to call them gangs and it would raise the public's concern. Now we say neighborhood feud and it sounds less severe.

It seems that a big concern is vacant buildings being magnets for dangerous and anti-social behavior in Trinidad.

DC folks have always used 'crew' as a term to define turf or particular groups.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Is Lanier too soft on crime? What's going on?

"Chief Lanier, today, said it was first believed McNeil's death was the result of a neighborhood feud that led to other violence In the area"

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/07/police-charge-man-in-connection-with-burned-body-found-in-a-d-c-trash-can--115414.html

Why is so important to you that she uses your preferred language?

I believe the PP is so animate about the media using his preferred language because the PP wants to keep blacks in their place. The US has a long history of using racist propaganda to subjugate black people. As Carter G. Woodson once said, If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told." Having said that, the use of language and terminology to describe black people, black environments, and black culture is critical to sustaining subconscious coercion and subsequently continue the subjugation of African-Americans.