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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't worry , they will be back on the street before bedtime [/quote]

Did you see the two suspects are allegedly minors? Wow just wow.

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I think carjackings are almost always minors. It’s a sport of sorts that replaced stealing cars when stealing cars got harder/less fun because of anti-theft devices, mainly remote keys. You know, a sport where they occasionally kill people.

I sat on a jury for a carjacking and it was essentially that they were bored and they wanted a car to ride around in. They stole and hot wired an older car, but they wanted a better car with a key. So they carjacked a guy. The whole thing was incredibly stupid from soup to nuts. I’m not sure they even tried to not get caught. [/quote]
+1. For the poster who asked if they ever interview the teens about why they do it, there is no meaningful reason. It is completely senseless. 
- former prosecutor[/quote]

So what do you think should happen in order to prevent car jackings?  Harsh penalties or reduce the penalties so there are essentially zero consequences, which is what Charles Allen is doing? [/quote]
Full disclosure, I left my job as a prosecutor because I could not abide by soft on crime policies and was too far along in my career to be doing things that I did not believe in, so I don’t align with the Charles Allen approach to crime. I think that creating diversion programs, mental health courts, drug courts, etc. are all excellent ideas and should be utilized whenever possible for non-violent offenses. Particularly with kids, there is value to the concept that putting them in the traditional criminal justice system can do more harm than good, so I think finding alternatives to traditional prosecution for non-violent kids is really important. However, I do not agree with treating a kid that shoots someone the same as the kid who steals. When you are putting a gun in someone’s face, or beating a random person for their AirPods, you are past the point where a hug and a promise to do better is enough. What you are reinforcing at that point is the idea that they can do whatever they want because there are no real consequences. If you shoot someone or are committing random acts of violence, you need to be taken out of society for a minute. Do services, therapy, etc. need to be provided, absolutely, but they need to be provided in a secure environment so the rest of the community is not at risk while the system tries to rehabilitate the kid. You also have to realize that these kids’ home environment is often terrible and their parents aren’t involved, so trying to rehabilitate a kid in their home environment, which requires parental participation and buy in, is often futile. To be quite honest I think there needs to be some serious investment in the facilities for juveniles so that they are providing the appropriate services in a safe environment. I really just don’t see what a violence interruptor is going to accomplish with a 15 year old kid who is already running the streets and whose parents are uninvolved.[/quote]

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