), emoticons, and URLs (Yan & Yan, 2006  In order to place ourselves in the best position to build an interpretable model, our space of graffiti style features was designed based on a combination of qualitative observations of the gangs forum data and reading about gang communication using web accessible resources such as informational web pages linked to the forum and other resources related to gang communication (Adams & Winter, 1997;Garot, 2007).
in our corpus we observed gang members using what we refer to as graffiti style features to mark their identity.