COLORS: Increasingly, black clothing is the order...
COLORS: Increasingly, black clothing is the order of the day in the county’s gang-ridden areas. . . . “Gang kids are abandoning colors as fast as they can,” says Greg Bodenhammer, director of Back in Control, a parent training center in Orange. . . . Wearing black, he says, “gives you safe passage through an area where gangs are a problem. Black says, ‘Hey, I’m someone to watch out for.’ ”
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