…know where YOUR kids are?
Don’t you just get sick of hearing it? Another juvenile crime committed and a slap on the hand, “don’t do it again!” warning is about all the person gets. Read all about it, neighbor. If it’s not happening on your street, you can believe it’s going on close by. Whether it’s drive-by shootings, home invasions, carjacking, armed robberies, purse-snatching, auto theft or shoplifting, the crime rate involving juveniles under 18 keeps going up as the age of offender drops down below the teens. Who can say how old a child is before they understand right and wrong and should take responsibility for the crimes they commit. However, existing laws already make their parents or guardian culpable for the actions of their children. Are those laws enforced? When’s the last time you heard that parents were going to be punished for the “sins” of the child. An eye for an eye is can be a brutal policy to follow when anyone, regardless of age commits an act of violence against others that result in injury or death. Serious crimes call for serious punishment and a message needs to be sent out by example to young criminals (under 18) and those responsible for their upbringing and behaviour, that age will not excuse them for paying a price for wrong choices made. Throw the parents in jail with their little delinquent child and let them all sit behind bars for awhile. (Just a thought.) Commit a “adult” crime, get prosecuted as an adult, without a free pass out when you turn 21, and without getting your felony record erased. Young punks, barely out of “three-cornered pants” (that’s “diapers”, for you people living in Rio Linda) think it’s cool to be a criminal. Wear your pants sagged low under you ass cheeks and be a tough guy and someday you may end up with a bunch of other tough guys, behind bars where your pants will be a sagging because you won’t have a belt to hold it up. Until we get serious and do SOMETHING different about delivering suitable punishment to ALL persons responsible, directly or indirectly, the innocent will continue to pay dearly, and the juvenile crime rate will continue to rise.
That’s MY story and I am sticking to it.