Sean Rameswaram

Good energy only if you ain't coming to turn up.

Stay home.

Okay, this doesn't necessarily sound chaotic or like, I don't know, illegal.

But what happens at these takeovers that's troubling cities like D.C.

so much?

So you went to one.

Did you get the sense there that people were coming to, like, wreak havoc?

Or did you get the sense that, you know, when you put this many teenagers together in one place, there's bound to be some shenanigans or something in between or what?

Which makes it a complex issue to deal with from the city's standpoint, right?

Because kids want to get together on the weekend since, I don't know, the dawn of time.

But if you put a lot of kids together on the weekend, something might happen.

How is the city responding?

Does the curfew actually work?

Because when I speak to teenagers in my neighborhood about this curfew, most of them say they're just going to violate it.

There's also something else going on here, right, to address this teen takeover thing.

It isn't just curfew and more law enforcement and stricter policies.

It's also like, let's give them something else to do.

Late night drip.

This feels like something that really gets at people's core philosophies about criminal justice, about adolescence.

I've seen people sharing videos of these teen takeovers in Navy Yard in D.C.