These fools caused the problems due to their Liberalism, their “embracing diversity”. In fact, they even say so. Note these gems from the article.
“State law prohibits Metro from fining anyone under seventeen caught riding the train without a ticket. As the train arrives at the station, Dante and his friends walk past the guard and climb aboard. The doors close, and they're gone.”
What these Liberal fools have done is provide free “urban mass transit” services - free rides for criminals.
Worse yet, when a cop catches juvenile criminals riding free, he is powerless to do anything about it. This is a perfect example of failed Liberalism creating and enforcing a policy of No Consequences For Anti-Social Behavior.
KEWL! Even Dippy the Hippy, stoned as he always was, knew better than that!
Then the Big Sh*tty Liberals want to claim anyone who doesn't accept the criminal behavior swarming off the ‘mass transit’ refuses to “embrace diversity” and is “racist” when they point out that black teens from the ghetto are committing the majority of the crimes.
If the criminals were sent to jail for long periods of time, the rest (and the large majority) of both the black teens from that ghetto and the rest of the public could enjoy the malls and urban areas.
When shop owners won't demand the sentences, and are unwilling to see the thieves jailed, they are contributing to their future problems.
PS Running thieves, or violent thieves, could be legally shot. I suggest paying a bounty on any thief so killed, and suggest the cost of a year of prison expenses as the reasonable bounty.
Non-violent thieves could be sentenced to enforced labor until they had produced enough pay back the stolen property, the costs of the law enforcement program, and any ‘supervision’ deemed necessary to determine that the criminal had become a self regulating citizen safe to allow on the streets.
“Worse yet, when a cop catches juvenile criminals riding free, he is powerless to do anything about it. This is a perfect example of failed Liberalism creating and enforcing a policy of No Consequences For Anti-Social Behavior.”
Wasn’t that a nice additional touch to the story, the thieves are even stealing their Metro ride to and from the Mall!