If you haven’t seen this already on the Crime Watch page, which automatically picks up updates from the SPDBlotter site – Seattle Police arrested two 13-year-old suspects running from a burglary scene in Highland Park (1400 block of SW Trenton; here’s a map) this morning; here’s the police writeup.
good! Put the little miscreants away for a while! 13 years old?…hard to believe…my nephew is 13.
I wish the names of the kids could be released. I’d like to keep the kids I know away from them!
Knucklehead wannabe’s in training. Urgh.
Well, it is either very good they got snagged now, while they are still dumb yet malleable, or very bad that a crime career has just blossomed. Time will tell. They are still, regardless, children.
Makes me think once again how awesome the great work Big Brothers of King County, Boys and Girls Clubs volunteers do, as well as other school and community mentor programs.
Just a couple of hours a month of responsible friendship/guidance/fun and they literally can redirect if not save a kid’s life.
Just a little food for thought you all.
d, with all due respect, a “school” program nor another program that assumes a child will show up to it won’t do much good for those 13 year olds who, at 10:30am on a school day, were breaking into someone’s house. Right?
Hard for me to say, really, road. I don’t know at what point a kid is beyond intervention and hope. I get your point though. There will be some who are lost forever. Crimes are committed and crimes should be prosecuted, of course.
But I’m referring to the kids who are at risk, who are precariously positioned but HAVE NOT YET breached the law. Perhaps, with a little positive modeling of the higher road to take, kids might develop inner resources and resiliency – finding themselves rather than getting lost. But who knows for certain? Not me.
I remember when I was about 13. I knew and hung with kids who were on the “wrong” side and “right” side of the law. We “toyed” with small things at first that were, well…what should I say, ah “bad behavior”. I could see the progression from bad behavior to worse, then “much worse”. For some reason, my conscious (perhaps) kicked in or my better judgment or something. I came to a crossroads and decided to walk away from those kids who I perceived as leading me astray. I found other avenues to peruse the excitement, thrill and competition I desired.
I see the ghetto bird flying around the HIgh Point area right now… 2 am
We’ll be checking on that a little later this morning, missed it while it was happening – TR
The problem for 13 year old kids is their legs are too short to let them run that fast from a crime scene. Plus, two running kids just looks suspicious. I want to yell at these kids and their parents. Good chance they’ll get into gangs and prisons if they don’t shape the f*** up.
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