Unlike an anti-gang model popularized in Boston during the late 1990s, in which ex-offenders and police officers worked together to curtail violence, Slutkin's approach leans more heavily on members of the street culture.
In the mid-1990's big youth gangs, modeled after gangs in El Salvador, began swaggering though poor neighborhoods and commercial centers alike, growing to almost 40,000 members who robbed pedestrians and shook down bus drivers.
Its long list of celebrity cameos – featuring many of Swift's real-life "girl gang", including model Cara Delevingne and Girls creator Lena Dunham – was detailed in the leadup to its release, but the fact that the single would be a remix had not previously been known.
Twenty years ago today, Mr Lawrence tried to save a 13 year old pupil from getting attacked by a local gang which modelled itself on the Chinese Triads.
Gang members modeled themselves after the Mau Mau, Kenya's independence fighters who wore dreadlocks, took secret oaths and waged a hit-and-run guerrilla war against British colonizers.
Placed in a rural setting, it features a wedding party with supermodel Kate Moss and a gang of models ranging from artistocratic types to young urban hipsters, all clothed in Burberry garb from the full Menichetti range.
We were lucky enough to have a willing member of the Cave Clan take us and our gang of models on a tour of some of the friendlier drains around town, and also managed to speak to Doug, the guy who started it all and, incidentally, who came up with their awesome logo.
Recently methods have been proposed in the literature to mathematically model gang violence.
This morning, Professor Andrea Bertozzi spoke about models that she and her team of post-docs at UCLA are developing to model gang violence.
Taylor Swift kicked off Coachella's first weekend by sporting a bleached look, probably waiting for the rest of her model gang to appear.
California's Homeboy Industries, located in Los Angeles, has enjoyed great success as a model gang intervention program diverting thousands of young people from the pipeline to prison for two decades.
