We have been looking at gangs all wrong, and we have been doing so for decades. We fetishize gangs, obsessing over the details of their rituals, rites, and ceremonies. We exaggerate their numbers and their crimes. We stereotype them, grouping all gangs and gang members into a monolithic whole. And, despite all this attention, we have yet to find any specifically gang-oriented policy that consistently works to reduce crime or, more importantly, violence.