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It is unforetunate but history and actions continue to prove that the few continue to ruan it for the many. Growing up in Martinsville they sounded a siren at 10 PM indicating the start of curfew. Parents also need to be held accountable, these are THEIR children and responsibility and need to stepup their game and do their part to stop the violence. It is always interesting how parents speak out ageinst the violence after their child is injured or killed.
The parents (usually just momma) don’t CARE!!!
It is a shame that everyone has to dance around the real issue due to political correctness. The actors are pretty obvious. No one is responsible and everyone is a victim. Patterns become stereotypes all across the country and perception becomes the reality.
Fatigue
Exactly. We have one group that makes up a minority of the population that degrades the quality of life for everyone else that we are constantly told need more “resources” to meet basic expectations. Except we’ve been doing that for longer than I have been alive and taking from the responsible and giving to the irresponsible clearly doesn’t work.
Don’t dance around it, then. Enlighten us about what you think the problem is.
Unsupervised Black Youth…..Is that clear for you?….. Look at everything all across the country! There I said it…That makes me a racist …so be it. Intelligent and hard working blacks will tell you the same THING.
They are as fatigued with bad obnoxious and crude behavior as whites are. Not to mention takeovers, looting by mobs etc.
To quote ” It’s not all of them, but it’s them”.
When was the last time the FFA convention resulted in gunfire?………….Buelher, Buelher
Thanks for the honesty, Rick. Maybe one day you’ll be able to look past your admitted racism to reflect on the reasons why society has evolved the way it has since our founding.
Unfortunately this is a nationwide trend and Indianapolis is not alone. The teen gatherings are social-media led and can truly create havoc as these are adolescents, immature in reasoning and thereby prone for hasty reactions which have all too often led to violence. Whereas many just want to have fun, to see and be seen, this [often outrageous] behaviour can readily devolve into a menacing melee due to a few bad armed apples.
Bravo to the City Council and to the Police Department. IMHO the curfew could be even earlier and parents should be held to a higher standard of responsibility. One recognizes that knowing a child’s whereabouts at all times of day can be difficult but these children/adolescents/young adults do remain the parent’s responsibility.
One does not have the right to promote chaos and destroy any vestige of social order and decency.
Awww. Poor Michael, offended by the GOD’S HONEST TRUTH!!! Typical!!!
Rick, you are 100% SPOT ON, and the one’s who CAN’T/REFUSE to see it (Michael N!!) are the REAL racists!!!
Local leaders need to have a meeting and strengthen the laws currently on the books. Not only to hold the teenagers responsible, but their parents!
Won’t do any good when you have an absolutely WORTHLESS, POS EXCUSE for a Prosecutor who either plea bargains everything down to bullshit, or drops the charges all together!!! THAT, is also a big part of the problem, along with Judge’s giving slap’s on the wrist to these kids!!! Hold the parents accountable? NOT in Marion County!!!
This isn’t going to help. Youth need something to DO. Public space and public schools have largely been privatized, malls are dead, funding for programming has been slashed to near-zero, and parents are stretched to the limits.
Pushing kids to stay at home and isolate themselves from their peers and from the rest of society won’t make things better.
Yeah but as these comments clearly show, blaming these kids for the color of their skin is the real solution. Thanks, A.R. for continuing to be a voice of reason in the cesspool that these comments sections routinely turn into thanks to bad-faith actors who lack the intellectual curiosity to educate themselves on the root causes of all of the societal problems they love to whine about.
A R.
Kids have been complaining about having nothing to do forever. However, kids being disruptive and violent is fairly new.
Kids have more to do now than ever.
Hold parents responsible!
Michael N.
lol….No one is blaming these kids for the color of their skin.
But to ignore the facts is just ignorant.
Okay, Keith, tell us what you think the root cause of the problem is. What A. R. stated is objectively true and measurable. You haven’t offered any ideas that come close. You just sound like an old man who thinks the way you grew up is still how society functions. Look around you, man. Things are very different.
why don’t you enlighten us them Michael N. you seem to know it all
DD, I already said that I think AR has it right.
Parenting is the issue.
I can tell you right now that if one of my grandchildren or my kids ( when they were teens ) would have acted up in school or in public, there would be hell to pay.
I think part of the issue is kids don’t have the family support or structure that they need. Living very close to extended family members and close friends made a difference. Many kids now no longer live near their relatives.
And neighbors used to watch out for each others children and property.
Now most extended families live far apart and most people don’t even know any of their neighbors.
Personally, I think social media can be very harmful also.
I agree with most of that, Keith. So, what can we do to support these families in need? A curfew only hides the problem. If we want to fix it, we need to make supporting kids and families in need a priority again. But, we can’t acknowledge these societal issues on one hand and then simply blame parents on the other.
Michael N.
I think another difference is that when I was young, families were bigger.
More brother and sisters. Also closer to your extended family, grand parents, cousins, aunts and uncles.
** Drive by a group of kids sometime waiting at school bus stop. They are not interacting. They are all individually on their I Phones.
When I was a kid, there would be a large group of us waiting for the bus.
We would be talking and laughing about so many things. Everyone interacting. Those were some very fond memories. We had a couple of real funny guys in our group.
I feel sorry for kids today when I see a group of kids in the morning. They are not socializing.
Another great point. Maybe no phones in schools will help marginally. I grew up in the time of flip phones. I got an in school suspension once for using it during art class. Lesson learned.
Michael N.
That’s a funny story.
Have a great day.!
Bull……
Oh look, there he is AGAIN playing the race card!!! Like I said before, YOU Michael N, are the REAL RACIST!!!
Good for the City Council. The curfew
is sensible.
What took so long??