 Families were randomly selected within each neighborhood and interviews were conducted with adults, caregivers, and children.21% of children reported having violent peers that were a part of gangs, 11% reported being robbed, 8% reported witnessing a shooting within the past year.According to a 2017 study in the "Journal of Law and Economics", "Higher pretrial detention rates among minority defendants explain 40 percent of the black-white gap in rates of being sentenced to prison and 28 percent of the Hispanic-white gap."