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Originally Posted by WallShadow
For my money, contain them, constrict the perimeter, wait for one to get seriously short-handed, then start taking out anybody who showed colors.
Oh, yeah. Announce to the survivors that anyone wearing BOTH red and blue would be permitted to advance to an area where they could surrender, be photographed and be processed. Now THAT would cause a lot of soulsearching and quick negotiating or blowing away the nearest opposing color to get one of each. Plus, the photographic evidence of gang members' turncoating for a short-term advantage may not sit well with the true-believers in either gang, or with their street cred. Lots of PsyOps could prove effective and have long-lasting effects in defanging the gangs.
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LE already confiscates "colors" from both gangs and "outlaw motorcycle clubs" as the Supreme Court ruled (in a case against the Hell's Angels) that a club's colors can be tantamount to an "implement of crime." We also routinely process the "tatts" of known gang members as those "tatts" often form a "resume" of the perp's criminal history. There are books out there available to both LE and private citizens (for security officers) that detail what tatts and phrases mean so that you can "educate yourself" about people you may have to deal with on the street.
In my game, I allow either a "Streetwise" or "Forensics" test to identify these symbols as well as "tags" (graffiti that you find on gang turf).