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.
And yes, because often these thugs terrorise those who challenge them, we allow the police to give the evidence as hearsay.
But to get there she has had to "detoxify" the party of its past and its tribal beliefs in order to make it appeal to those who are disillusioned with the mainstream right and left parties in France but who cannot bring themselves to vote for a group of racist thugs.
In a nation held to ransom by well-armed thugs, and lacking almost all infrastructure, these remarkable people – often motivated as much by a desire to keep their country alive as to make money – supply tiny desert settlements all over the nation with scarcely any losses.
"Here you have Warren saying the banks are thugs, she supports the consumer which has a natural leftwing sound to it, but I don't think it's putty-headed liberalism, I think she is just an advocate for the small person".
Needless to say, Timor barely features in the media anymore – it's a historical footnote with a story that ends with Canberra as the saviour of the nation in 1999, when rampaging Indonesian thugs were destroying the capital, Dili.
The Royal Collection, which owns this masterpiece, claims the thugs are "gypsies", but that is unnecessarily specific.
(23 February 2012 ) "Now, those thugs are wrecking a great party, and they're putting the knife into me again.
Related: Baltimore mayor under pressure after 'space to destroy' remark Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the city's embattled mayor, repeatedly condemned the rioters as "thugs", a term seen as racially charged by many protesters.
Rap had real connotations of thugs, street life, all that.
When officials talk about thugs, they should look closer to home: the "anger and the selfishness and the brutality" that Simon should have been criticising is that which has been coming from the Baltimore Police Department for years, not strictly that seen on the streets last night.
