Thaddeus Johnson

Make no mistake, these teen takeovers are dangerous, they are violent, and they end up in fighting, assaults, robberies, businesses are impacted.

There is no law against loitering, there is no law against congregating in different areas.

So, you know, I think about...

First of all, think about, you know, my grandma, right?

Nothing's new under the sun, right?

Things may take different versions.

They may have different mechanisms or what have you, but it's pretty much unprincipled, very similar.

And, you know, and I think, you know, when it comes to juvenile crime, think about terms like super offenders.

There was a moral panic for some reason around juveniles.

And whether people want to say it's racialized or ageism involved, when you have a group of unsupervised kids who are being unruly, you think about juvenile crime, it's something that's a little bit more shocking to the system.

So I think, you know, many times, you know, juvenile-involved crime is actually, we're a little bit more fearful of that

because they're so much more risk-taking.

They're so much more impulsive.

They think it's not fully developed.

They can be a little bit more dangerous because their rationale is different.

I think there has been a longtime fear of juvenile offenders and crime in general that we shouldn't minimize or either sensationalize.

Do curfews work?

Let me say, you know, oftentimes, and I have to be, you know, keep a balanced perspective.

Oftentimes when I see people just immediately go on to curfews, and they're not just curfews, there's any other reaction to everything we see from our leaders.

And these seeing all over, you know, some could say that perhaps