Seattle crime crisis is now finding middle and high school students. A group of armed and masked thieves are targeting students after school
and there aren’t enough officers to proactively police the neighborhoods. They’re committing the crimes in broad daylight.
, describing a recent confirmed armed robbery. “He looked down at his phone and by the time he looked up, he was surrounded by five guys, and eventually these guys told him ‘Sit on the ground.’ They made him reset his phone, tell them his password, and they took his AirPods, phones.”that four males in ski masks pulled up behind her 14-year-old son and demanded his iPhone. When he didn’t comply, the mom said the suspects pushed her son to the ground and started punching him in the head.
In Washington state, teen criminals seldom suffer meaningful consequences. Washington Democrats passed legislation preventing officers from talking to teen suspects until they have a lawyer present, even if the suspect’s parents consent. When teens do get caught, they seldom see jail time. Instead, they’re pushed into restorative justice programs run by police and prison abolitionist groups. The county provides little oversight.
Not only do these programs not work, there’s little to no accountability by the prosecutors and judges who favor these alternatives to jails.
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