Chapter 1: What are the recent trends in teenage violence across America?
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Chapter 2: What factors are contributing to the rise of teen takeovers?
What we're seeing increasingly across the district is not only unacceptable, it is violent, it is dangerous, and it is illegal. And we're looking at the parents to make sure that they understand that they are responsible for the upheaval that is going on in this district that is impacting everyone who lives here.
That was U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro responding to a fresh instance of teenage violence in her city. In cities across the country, teenagers are gathering to commit violent crimes en masse in the name of social media clout.
Chapter 3: How have social media platforms influenced youth crime?
Heather MacDonald joins us today to discuss the teen takeover trend, what's fueling it, and what can actually be done to stop it. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howell. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Chapter 4: What role does family structure play in youth behavior?
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Chapter 5: How have anti-police policies impacted crime rates?
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Joining us now is Heather McDonald, author of The War on Cops and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where she's a contributing editor of City Journal, a woman with many titles. Heather, great to have you on.
Great to be with you, John. Thank you.
So we've had a recent rash of teenage degenerate behavior, to put it one way, street takeovers and ramming cops in Chicago. There were some young Jewish girls assaulted by young Palestinian activists in New York and more of this kind of stuff.
Chapter 6: What challenges do law enforcement face in responding to youth violence?
You've studied crime trends for decades. When you look at recent incidents, particularly involving young people in major cities, what stands out to you the most right now?
The sheer repetition of it. Uh, we have a very convenient, uh, oblivion to the fact that this has been going on for decades. Uh, now they're called teen takeovers. They used to be called flash mobs or wilding.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of recent police reforms on public safety?
Uh, and it's, I guess it's just a function of the media needing to have a new story. This is completely standard in 2020. You had the mayor of Chicago lowering all the draw bridges to the loop and, and downtown Chicago. to try and prevent the barbarian hordes coming over from the other side of the rivers because the looting was so bad, the attacks were so bad.
You have spring break periodically in Florida where people are getting shot. You've had the flash mobs in Los Angeles where teens are rampaging through 7-Elevens, grabbing everything in sight, the street takeovers. Philadelphia, you've had the same mobbing. So this is a longstanding problem. And nobody wants to talk about what the causes are, which is black family breakdown.
And the fact that a lot of these kids are not being socialized and the criminal justice is terrified really to do anything about it.
Now, you mentioned family breakdown. Have there also been other changes to, for example, things like policing or anything having to do with schools? Or would you say family structure is the main issue here?
Well, the schools have been absolutely destroyed. denatured, demobilized as far as being able to impose discipline in the classroom. And that's an astute question, Georgia, because especially under the Obama administration, continuing under Biden, there was this phony conceit that if schools disciplined black students at a higher rate,
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Chapter 8: What predictions can be made about future crime trends in major cities?
That's because the teachers were racist or the principals were racist, which is the most ludicrous idea. There's no more left-wing profession than teachers in this country, as we've seen numerous times with the celebrations of Charlie Kirk's murder and, and Luigi Mangione's murder. And an ed school is just one long marination in white privilege theory.
But the idea was, is that if black kids are getting disciplined at a higher rate, it's because of systemic racism. And so the Obama administration sued schools to make them... basically get rid of discipline because, you know, you have two options.
You can continue with so-called disparate impact and actually mete out justified consequences, or you can just throw up your hands and say, okay, in order to avoid disciplining black students, we're going to not discipline anybody. And that's what schools have been doing. And if there's no
structure in the home, you have something called multi-partner fertility, a very antiseptic term from sociology that means one boyfriend after another moving through the home and a mother has children by several different males. If that situation is chaotic, the child's only hope for learning self-control self-discipline, deferred gratification is in the school, is in the classroom.
But teachers now have been told they can't do that. So, but that again is a longstanding change. None of this is new. Policing obviously has been under one prolonged assault since the Ferguson riots saying that if they arrest black juveniles or black criminals, that they're racist. And so the pressure is on them
not to intervene at all because they don't want another George Floyd riot or Ferguson riot in their city. So there's a big pressure to just watch and be passive rather than proactive.
Now, what about social media? How does that play into some of the crime trends that we've seen?
It does. I mean, we've been hearing endlessly that these are organized on social media, but I think that's a dead end to go down. It's irrelevant. These have been happening before there was social media to the same extent.
I've heard a proposal to somehow hold the media companies responsible if they promote the videos that are inevitably taken, the trophy videos of people beating up on innocent passers-by and stripping Apple stores bare. Again, Americans turn their eyes away from the real problem, which is the failure to socialize a very large number of overwhelmingly black young people.
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