Police didn't take it seriously....

[AlohaSteven]

In a rural Alaska community I worked in several youths were apprehended red-handed late one night by a teacher. They had made a huge mess and done a bunch of damage while ripping off the school's concessions stand inventory of soda, ice cream, and candy and were attempting to batter their way into the school office safe (bashing it with a sledge hammer and trying to chisel off the hinges) when the lights went on. The whole building could have been lost -at huge expense- since they had pried open exterior doors late at night in winter when pipes can easily freeze solid.

The local police being a reflection of the local community, nothing came of it. The consequences were next to nothing.

A couple years later one of the youths was convicted of rape and murder. Another shot himself in the head and died (the net was tightening; he had been an accomplice to the same drunken rape and murder). The third is now in prison on an unrelated matter.

The moral of the story is that it is better, imho, to take such matters more seriously and provide an effective intervention with wayward youth early on while still possible to do so.


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