With those upside-down values, the odds are against that kid.
Good.
Maybe this stops him from being a thug as an adult.
Should scare the crap out of all kids doing crimes when young, boys AND girls. Hopefully stop that crap they are pulling right then and there.
Scared straight works!
Where is her parent our guardian? They should be in jail with this boy.
Teaching right and wrong. Good. Theft is a crime.
“It’s fun to do bad things.”
When I was 10 my pals and I were at a public golf course throwing firecrackers off a bridge. Later we were in the clubhouse and a guy yells out, “Hey Joe, these are those firecracker kids”. Joe, a Walter Matthau looking guy, walks over and flips out a badge and says, “Bill, call juvenile and tell them to come pick these kids up.”
The blood drains from our faces and Joe and Bill bust out laughing and tell us to leave before they change their minds.
A little bit of scare goes a long way when you are young.
I got a security officer to scare my son straight after I discovered something he had taken from a store.
You get much better results by reacting harshly to a child’s first ethical failure or dangerous behavior than you will by applying a punishment too light to outweigh the benefits of thievery or aggression. While we would all prefer it if we could always use gentle instruction, gentle instruction is what you use to teach a child things like addition and subtraction- things that if he should fail to learn to do well, won’t in his future result in him hurting someone, getting shot or thrown in prison. For behavior that can result in harm to another’s person or property, or can result in the child being shot or getting arrested, an immediate slapdown is the only thing that will make a sufficiently strong impression. Reason is useless when the child’s about to burn himself on the stove. He will get burned before you can even think what to say. But knock him away before he sets that hand down on the burner, and you will save him a lot of grief and pain. Let him cry about his hurt dignity if he must, it is better than a burn.
Another chance for the media to stir the race pot.
They should have taken him to the station and taken his prints and mugshots.
The kid was obviously hungry. Why don’t the parents feed the boy? The day is coming soon when everyone will be hungry.
No they aren’t.
If he was a cold blooded killer, he’d be out under NY’s “justice reform” bill, to murder again.
Kids need to learn there are consequences. Better now than when he’s 18 and can be tried as an adult.
East coast evidently didn’t get the west coast memo that stealing is no longer a crime.
Sometimes, that kind of treatment works, like it or not.
I have a story. When I was a child of about 7 or 8, I was on an evening outing with some other schoolchildren to play in Rock Creek Park in DC. Toward the end, somebody came by on a horse, a beautiful, brown animal; it might have been a horseback cop. We all stood around, patting the horse and talking.
At the end of the encounter, I made the mistake of walking behind the horse on the way back to the van. Our counselor caught up with me, took me aside, and asked, “Do you know what it feels like to be kicked by a horse?” I said, no? He said, “It’s like falling off your bicycle, then getting hit by a car.” He said some other stuff I don’t remember, then let me go.
I spend the ride back to the school in silent fear, terror and shame. For a while afterward, whenever I saw a horse, I would regard the animal with fear and suspicion. But I tell you what: to this day, I have never put myself in that kind of danger by walking behind a horse again!
Sometimes, these things work.
Apparently catching and scaring young kids while shoplifting is the best way to stop them from life of crime.
Once they grow up, they do not care anymore!
From police friends.
Mostly peacefully, of course.
Dontejavarious?
Too bad this isn’t the days when they could have woopped his butt as well. This is an old story. After the kid was taken home he then stole a bike. liberals and their mindset have screwed up the entire world.
It’s hilarious I can tell the race of the kid by the responses/reactions
The cops should have the cuffed and stuffed the kid’s parents in the cop car, telling the 7 year old that as a child, they were responsible for him and his criminal behavior.