In Chicago, four 16 to19-year-old youths were charged with beating, clubbing and stomping a 16-year-old honor student to death. Why? Because he just happened to be walking along when he found himself caught in the middle of a fight between two rival gangs. In Florida, a 15-year-old boy was doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire by four 15-year-olds and a 13-year-old. Why? Because he tried to keep them from stealing his father’s bycicle.
In every American city, gangbangers as young as the mid-teens are shooting up neighborhoods intending to kill rival gang members, but often killing or wounding innocent bystanders. Young kids are selling dope on street corners, robbing convenience stores and committing other serious crimes, crimes for which adults would be sent to prison in a hot New York minute.
Our outmodet juvenile laws were designed for "delinquents in need of help" on the assumption that children are still in a developmental stage and are incapable of forming criminal intent or understanding the consequences of their wrongful acts.
Our state and federal laws have set an arbitrary age, usually 18, at which an offender is judged to be an adult. In some states it is 16 or 17. If a juvenile commits a really serious crime, he can be referred from a juvenile jurisdiction to an adult court.
I've always believed that setting an arbitrary age divide was a lot of horseshit. Delinquents are those little farts who commit petty crimes, not those assholes who shoot up neighborhoods, sell dope, commit armed robberies and other serious crimes. And certainly not those youths in Florida who set that young kid on fire, or those thugs in Chicago who beat that honor student to death. It is way past the time for us to stop classifying dangerous youths as delinquents.
Our laws on juveniles should be rewritten to protect the public from young criminals. Instead of letting a juvenile court determine whether a juvenile should be tried as an adult, it should be the other way around. For serious crimes, a youth should be handled as an adult from the get-go and then the courts can determine whether or not he should be referred to a juvenile court as a delinquent.
And our laws should also be changed to allow release to the media of the names and pictures of juveniles who have been charged with serious crimes. Florida already does this and the names and pictures of those five fire setting thugs were made available for publication right after they were arrested.
Here are Bob Walsh’s thoughts on the pukes who participate in gangbanger shootings:
VIOLENT YOUNG SOCIOPATHIC ASSHOLE
By Bob Walsh
PacoVilla’s Corrections blog
October 14, 2009
Andrew Aradoz is 16years old and, if he doesn't get killed in prison, with be sucking up taxpayers money for the next 24 years or so.
In June of 2007, when he was 14 years old, he and a couple of homies started blasting with a .45 at a few rivals in a supermarket parking lot in the teeming metropolis of Woodland. They hit one of their targets, a 15-year old gangbanger associate who very nearly died as a result, likely costing the taxpayers a ton of money while saving his sorry ass.
The driver, Kory Sanchez, who was over 18 at the time, got 19 years for attempted murder to benefit a criminal street gang.
Aradoz, aka Savage to his road puppies, got a total of 24 years and some change for attempted murder, car theft, use of a firearm and various gang enhancements. He was the actual shooter.
I don't know about you, but I know I am getting tired of these violent youngsters pulling crap like this. Unfortunately they often miss their targets and hit innocent bystanders. Even when they hit who they are shooting at, the taxpayers often foot the bill in both directions.
I realize the constitution gives freedom of association and RICO [Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] prosecutions take time and resources. Sometimes I think we should just round the little bastards up, put them in an arena with baseball bats, put it on pay per view and split the take with the last man standing. But that's probably illegal.
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