Sean Rameswaram

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When I see these videos of these teen takeovers, which aren't happening terribly far from where I live in Washington, D.C., I'm kind of thinking like, OK, this does look a little hectic.

It does feel kind of new because so many of these kids are streaming it from the takeover.

Some of these kids are there because of social media.

But then I also think this kind of feels like West Side Story, the original.

Or the Steven Spielberg remake.

We ain't no delinquents, we're misunderstood.

We asked Thaddeus Johnson what he makes of them.

He's a former cop and a professor of criminal justice at Georgia State University.

And of course, because these are minors,

cities, law enforcement can deal with them in a specific way, a specific tool they have, which they wouldn't have if these were adults, which is curfew laws.

Okay, so concepts like prevention, mediation, alternatives, activities, we've heard all of this

You know, coming out of COVID when kids were wilding out, we've heard about it earlier in the show in terms of what D.C.

is trying to do.

What is it about this cocktail that works versus doesn't work?

Because it sounds like stuff that is done.

And yet here we have these teen takeovers and cities like D.C.

seem a little paralyzed when it comes to solving it.

Eight juveniles were arrested last night after several fights broke out.