There are so many stories around the country, where gangs of “youth” go to malls, and cause trouble.
What exactly should happen? Sadly, if there are too many youth gang type people hanging around malls, they scare away legitimate shoppers. The stores in the malls lose business.
Anyone familiar with the Washington, DC area, may remember what happened to Landover Mall. It was a beautiful suburban mall, but too many gang types started going there, causing trouble, getting in fights, and creating a threatening atmosphere. Legitimate shoppers stayed away, and stores started pulling out of the mall. Eventually the mall was torn down.
Why exactly is there a civil right for youth gangs to go to a suburban mall and bring ghetto behaviors to a place which doesn’t want that????
A decade ago I lived in Alabama. One of the malls was over run with 'youths' stirring up trouble by stealing, vandalism and intimidating customers. The cops upped manning and increased patrols in and around the mall.
Some 'community leaders' got their panties in a twist and started protesting. They intimidated the mall owners and tenants into requesting that the increased police presence be stopped.
Within a year, the mall (and most businesses within 5 blocks either direction) was all but a ghost town.
On Columbus Ohio they had the City Center Mall in the dowmtown. Right next to the buses. Gangs started showing up and there was a shooting on the escalators. People stayed away, tenants left and they’ll was torn down.
Holders people at play!
YOU are a racist for even asking those questions!
Racist!
Homophobe!
Bigot!
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How about Owings Mills? I remember when it opened -- it was THE high-end mall. Then, guess what... Light Rail built a station, direct from downtown Bawlmer. I knew people who worked at OM and said "overnight" it became the shoplifting mecca of the state. Lots of parking lot crime. The nice anchor department stores said Sayonara and now the place is a joke.
And those behaviors create suspicion of any group of black young people, even the kids from church groups, etc.
Same thing happened to Salem Mall in Dayton. The residents of BeaverCreek have an example close at hand about what happens when it becomes easy for gang members to get to their neighborhood and their mall.