Why are teenagers Committing so Much Crime?

[yung Herbie Hancock]

I think it's stemming from desensitivity to violence and social media. When you think about it alot of young people currently are experiencing violent death on a scale that some of us may have never experienced before. Death of friends or just peers their on age, death of family members. Social media makes it worse because we're now able to see violent deaths alot more than we could in the past. I think all of this together desensitizes people, especially young people, to the seriousness of death. Kids are seeing it soo much that it's just become something normal and they aren't appeciating or understanding how final death is.

Strong disagree. I live in one of these fentanyl ravaged places. It has nothing to do with social media bruh. The violance is almost 100% due to the rise in the cost of living, presence of cartels in black neighborhoods, and teenage unemployment.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Hence the problem. There's data that shows that teenage unemployment in poor areas almost always correlates with an increase in crime. Especially in areas where outside forces (such as the cartel) promise fast money. Chiraq stands no chance since it has such a large mexican population now. They just get the Fent and find anyone willing to sell it to our people (and white folks). This where these black teens come in.

Right.. Im looking at it now. I like how y'all lean heavy on statistics as if you have 0 life experience in this area to share.

Fast money is a life sytle promoted by SOME families within that demographic. So unless the kid can escape that environment and get in a environment that respects hard working men and women, it'll be a hard battle. A lot of children are homeless because the homes they live in are toxic as f*ck..

This is a extremely nuanced problem thats bigger than providing jobs and resources, which is also a part of the solution as well.

 

[bnew]

It seems like the crime across the country among teenagers is skyrocketing and I have no idea why. When I was a teen all I wanted to do is get my license and hang out with my friends. What happened? What's going on with the young people?

no money, desire to have things and free time to figure out how to get what they want by any means necessary. employers aren't really hiring teens like they use to.. entry level positions aren't what they use to be.

i'm firmly of the belief that a lot of these issues are rooted in income inequality, parents earn way less and the dollar doesn't go as far as it use to. theres less discretionary income to give to their kids and pay for out of school activities or hobbies. this leads to a lot of kids not having stuff they desperately want or feel they need and free time not engaging in fun activities or trips because everything costs.

 

[CrimsonTider]

I think it's a lot of reasons.


* Smart phones / Social media have helped make young people more impulsive, more reward-oriented, less able to deal with delayed gratification.

* There's been a turn in the country since Trump ran (partly even since Obama backlash) where a lot of people are more open about their racism and hate. You see far more openly angry people hating on entire groups in public than you used to, a complete erosion of social norms towards decency. Even if the hate existed before, you weren't supposed to show it. Teenagers pick up on that change and have a lot less self-control, so they get into a "well fukk you too then" mood and have less concerns about social norms themselves.

* Covid fukked up social skills development for some kids. In addition, there was a sort of "fukk authority" backlash across the board, you see more people speeding, more people going road rage, more people lashing out in lines or against regular workers. Everyone justifies their own antisocial behavior now because they "don't want to be controlled".

* Police have become even more hostile towards inner-city communities, either expressing open distain to BLM etc. or refusing to police at all, purposely allowing things to get worse.

* Guns are becoming even easier to access than they ever were.

Only your last point has validity

 

[Mowgli]

No God
Parents working and not raising kids
Single parent homes
Worthless fathers
Broke families
The curse of trying to be a n1gga.
Crime syndicates/cartels supplying the streets
The OGs y'all love so much who use kids as crash dummies so they can get paid and not face the consequences

 

[CrimsonTider]

This thread truly shows how out of touch some Coli posters are

Its people that really believe people are committing crimes because of social media

 

[Still Benefited]

What she and others are reacting to is the spike in crime. Crime was down for decades across many parts of the country.
She is asking why is it now up.? and why increasingly violence and murder by teens?

You bringing up the teen crack era shooters and the ugliness from that era isn't really addressing what she's saying.

In all seriousness,its the drill rap+internet. It has these kids playing Game Of Thrones with guns. Also it just goes to show that these kids arent recieving positive reinforcement for anything other than being thugs. And that falls squarely on the parents and the community. We have failed the youth by giving them validation based on their criminality. Same way we have validated the ho culture we complain about.



Validation is attention given. Even if we were only validating the music,we second hand validated what they were living.


People tend to try to become what they recieve validation for. And the streets will consistently validate you for the wrong things. So if parents and society aint on its job,the youth can easily get trapped

 

[Claudex]

No God
Parents working and not raising kids
Single parent homes
Worthless fathers
Broke families
The OGs y'all love so much who use kids as crash dummies so they can get paid and not face the consequences

Kids used to have nightmares about going to hell. A lot of the times it was because they knew even grown ups were afraid of hell.

Hell is now a fairytale construct. For all, young and old.

Children who fear nothing are more dangerous than the cruelest of adults.

They know very very little of consequences because they lack experience. That translates to an ability to do the unthinkable, whether for good or bad.

More and more I realize that religion only exists because men knew from experience the necessity of having something curb the darkest part of human nature.

A kid today will kill you and stress about where they dropped their phone rather than the fact that they just took you away from your loved ones.

 

[Wildhundreds]

This thread truly shows how out of touch some Coli posters are

Its people that really believe people are committing crimes because of social media

Social media does give a teenager a avenue to get into more f*ckery though. So it really is apart of the problem.

 

[Deltron]

In before hip-hop made them do it

it's obviously

 

[badboys11]

There's more to this than the regular basic answers nationwide.....just had a convo with a friends young family member through marriage....3 felonies before the age of 21, all robberies....asked him directly why? fukk is wrong with you?

His answer: no one's hiring. Damn near slapped this kid in the back of his head. Everyone is hiring here. Everybody. And this kid did not grow up poor, he just wanted to act bad and knew he wouldn't suffer any serious consequences due to his age.

Lack of consequences is a huge reason. These kids know if they shoot to kill they might serve 4 years in juvie. Might. Felony robbery equals probation.Once they get out automatic superstar status amongst their peers, just like pop smoke killer.

 

[Mass]

Yes…. Due to The lack of respect and lack of empathy.

Like our parents (80s baby’s atleast) beat our asses. Everyone further back was damn near abused.

This is the era of “can’t touch or I’ll call social services” kids that are now teens that think they tougher than the are, don’t comprehend consequences and think they can’t be touched/untouchable.

Kids trynna punk adults is wild to me today as this never happened before. To prove they so bad, they go to the most extreme lengths for clout… if that all makes sense

Exactly. And it creates adults who think they can’t get touched as well. Sad state of affairs all around

 

[CrimsonTider]

Social media does give a teenager an avenue to get into more f*ckery though. So it really is apart of the problem.

No it doesn’t. It exposes you to more but so did the internet in the 00s when most of this site was teens.

You can’t attribute an increase to crime to social media, rap, or teen unemployment or any of the other stuff I see in here

I was saying back in 2020 that letting kids “do school from home” was a dumb idea and we should be doing everything to make sure kids…especially black kids are at school in person

HL was calling me MAGA

 

[Gritsngravy]

That's different. MF's were dealing with the crack epidemic then

These little b*stards now ain't got no excuse, they just on demon time

What type of kids will be raised from crack babies?

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Kids used to have nightmares about going to hell. A lot of the times it was because they knew even grown ups were afraid of hell.

Hell is now a fairytale construct. For all, young and old.

Children who fear nothing are more dangerous than the cruelest of adults.

They know very very little of consequences because they lack experience. That translates to an ability to do the unthinkable, whether for good or bad.

More and more I realize that religion only exists because men knew from experience the necessity of having something curb the darkest part of human nature.

A kid today will kill you and stress about where they dropped their phone rather than the fact that they just took you away from your loved ones.

Bunch of Kid Buus running around