But current events will inevitably exacerbate the already established stereotype of the majority of young individuals as "thugs" and "gangsters", especially within the black community.
The colonel said he was defecting in protests at "Assad's gangsters bombing Syrian cities".
Either way, the French Connection grew ever more powerful and finally the stuff of myth and movies (the best of which is French Connection II, where Gene Hackman plays a dissolute New York cop at war with the Marseille gangsters).
Youth work will feature prominently and, in recognition of that fact, it opens with a version of Alan Parker's 1976 Prohibition era-set musical, with young people playing the gangsters.
With a second season long confirmed, there's a sense that the nominally gritty Gotham is clearing out some of its cartoonish gangsters to make more room for cartoonish supervillains, even if it still can't quite figure out what to do with young Bruce Wayne.
M concerns the pursuit of a child murderer loose in Berlin; what's unusual about the film is that – frustrated by the police's lack of success – gangsters and career criminals unite to track down the predator themselves.
Crimestoppers, the UK crimefighting charity, has set up a dedicated Spanish telephone line to gather anonymous tipoffs about British gangsters believed to have fled to the tourist haven.
Cab drivers and gangsters, I say, are all well and good, but what does his wife think of the record?
"That's how it happened in Mafia Queens of Mumbai and in Dongri to Dubai too; it was a compilation of the lives of so many gangsters, which became one collective book with so many characters.
When I've played Are the Children Happy? to people – cab drivers, gangsters, hedge fund managers – they've all cried, they've all come back to me with their own family stories.
Suspicion that at least one of the gangsters behind the murder last Monday could be working for the security services last night prompted the SDLP to demand a meeting with the chief constable.
