[Blueflag]

Joan --

you are in Mexifornia. Please don't generalize from your particulars. Here in GA we have our issues, but from my experience, the folks here deal with rowdy kids better. Part of the reason in ATL itself is that the administration of Atlanta, for all of its warts, won't put up with rowdy youths of any color or national origin messin' with the ATL. MARTA has its issues, BUT the MARTA cops fell and act empowered, and they do their job (when you have one on the bus/train.)

Sure you can run into problems. No argument. BUT ... we do tend to deal with our own.

[Joan Kerrey]

the folks here deal with rowdy kids better.

Probably so but it doesn't take much to reverse that. All that's needed is for you to fail to deal with it once and it grows to the point that it's not correctable without drastic action like police riding on the buses and making arrests.