What a mess. look at what this 13 year old did in Georgia. These are kids in distress sending up flares with their antisocial behavior, and society doesn't help them or itself. It's time to bring back reform school, humane reform school that actually reforms. Kids go in, and don't come out until a parole type board with teachers, social workers, judge, community members -whatever- meet and assesses their progress and that they have met standards -like GED, job training, counseling - that will serve them socially.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid stole another car Tuesday night in Silver Spring after he had been released to the custody of his parents. At what point is enough enough here?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/12-year-old-accused-maryland-car-dealership-break-ins-released-parents-strikes-again-police?taid=66d8797ab30c2e000154674c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

According to the article, once the boy turns 13 (or commits a violent crime) then everything changes. That’s the law, and it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. This is an extreme example, but do you really want 12-year olds processed in the criminal justice system for non-violent crimes?

so when he turns 13 they start dropping any charges?

Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

Policed by the negligent parents?

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Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

How will he go to school or after school activities?

House arrest includes supervision provisions for work and school.

Supervised by whom?

Isn’t that what ankle monitors are for?

There's probably a TikTok video on how to remove an ankle monitor. What are you going to do if he removes it? Put on another one?

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Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

How will he go to school or after school activities?

House arrest includes supervision provisions for work and school.

Supervised by whom?

Isn’t that what ankle monitors are for?

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Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

How will he go to school or after school activities?

House arrest includes supervision provisions for work and school.

Supervised by whom?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the parents need to be held accountable and given some training, monitoring, a fine and some parenting assistance.

This. They probably want support--their child is incorrigible. Sometimes, parents need help from the state. For all we know they may wonderful parents, and their kid may just be a total dud right now.

My kid hasn't robbed any car dealerships. Are other parents just duds?

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Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

How will he go to school or after school activities?

House arrest includes supervision provisions for work and school.

You assume he goes to school? How about we lock him and his parent/s up? Obviously the parent/s aren't responsible enough to stop his behavior.

Anonymous wrote:What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

How will he go to school or after school activities?

What about house arrest as an alternative punishment?

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Anonymous wrote:Did I miss something? Why are the only choices for punishment to do nothing or to send him to juvie? What about community service? There needs to be some consequence to try to discourage negative behavior before kids have to be sent to juvie.

How are you going to enforce this? So far he’s gotten away with stealing cars and there’s been no consequence. You think he’s going to show up for trash pick up duty? Are the police going to arrest him for not doing community service? The same police that don’t arrest him for stealing cars?

+100

That would put the "policing" onto some sort of nonprofit or other entity with volunteer jobs. No, thanks. I would not want to manage the work of car thieves.

Why does it have to be a non-profit or a volunteer job? Didn’t we used to punish people by making them pick up trash on the side of the road? As for enforcement, while I’m not sure of the actual legal terms and procedures, couldn’t we set up contingencies in the sentence, so he either does the work he’s sentenced to, or else he is sent to juvenile detention.

Anonymous wrote:What about CPS? How did the parents not know where their kid was? What are their consequences? Was this child released to the parents without any responsibility for the parents?

What about hiring him as a violence interruptor? It would give him some responsibility.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid stole another car Tuesday night in Silver Spring after he had been released to the custody of his parents. At what point is enough enough here?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/12-year-old-accused-maryland-car-dealership-break-ins-released-parents-strikes-again-police?taid=66d8797ab30c2e000154674c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

According to the article, once the boy turns 13 (or commits a violent crime) then everything changes. That’s the law, and it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. This is an extreme example, but do you really want 12-year olds processed in the criminal justice system for non-violent crimes?

Extreme recidivists? Yes. At a minimum he needs to go to a boarding school for kids with severe behavioral issues (they exist).

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Anonymous wrote:We need to go back to the Code of Hammurabi. I can guarantee you all this retail and car theft crap would stop real quick if they simply lopped off the hands of anyone caught stealing. The punishment would make it not worth it to commit those kinds of crimes. It’s amazing how we haven’t learned anything when humans figured out the solution 3,000 years ago. That’s the only way humans with animalistic instincts will ever be deterred.

Ah, you're one of those people who hate America and everything it stands for.

Move to Saudi Arabia or something already.

Disagree. Pro crime liberals like yourself are why the US is declining into a 2nd world cesspool. Honestly, the US doesn't even deserve to be in the same conversation as developed nations anymore.