Corrections from July 8 issue

Due to a production error, Detective Todd Lucas was not identified in the opening photograph of last week’s cover story [“Does Charlottesville have a gang problem?” July 8, 2008]. Additionally, in the section of that story titled “The summer of white t-shirts,” the author wants to make explicit that when Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo smiled at the notion that white t-shirts are the mark of a gang, he was not dismissing the severity of the attacks last summer at the hands of white t-shirted kids. Rather, Longo was responding to the idea that wearing a white t-shirt necessarily makes one a gang member.

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