The Justice Department estimates that more than 650-thousand young people are involved in gangs, and those gang members committed more than three thousand homicides in 1995. In Minnesota, authorities from the Governor to various police chiefs have announced new plans to attack what they call growing gang problems. Politicians, and popular culture, often paint gang members as irretrievable outlaws, who will only leave the gang in handcuffs or a body bag. But experts say most gang members eventually go straight.