super cool that the nation’s political press want to speedrun the 90s juvenile crime panic without anywhere near the actual reported crimes
so the subtext here is that there actually has been a spate of, like, jaw dropping juvenile crime that started roughly coincident with the pandemic; carjackings, this below. it isn’t totally clear what the drivers are and it doesn’t appear to be widespread
Girl, 14, sentenced for role in fatal beating of DC man
A judge sentenced a D.C. teenager to about three-and-a-half years for her role in the beating death of a 64-year-old man last year. Reggie Brown was battling cancer and weighed just 110 pounds when he...
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Yeah, a lot of this is hyperlocalized pockets of violence concentrated in a few cities. There's a particular problem with feral teens in D.C. because of the disjointed way in which prosecutions happen (teens at the city level - adults by the D.C. U.S. Attorney) and the insanely lenient laws.
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I don’t think it’s fictional and it exists concurrent with a drop in overall violent crime— overall violent crime is going down even as juvenile violent crime is going up.
but also what Trump is doing won’t do dick to solve this and has nothing to do with it except maybe the Big Balls incident
