by James Wootton

About the author: James Wootton is the president of Safe Streets Coalition, an organization that works to remove violent criminals from the streets and to prevent at-risk youth from becoming involved in criminal activities.

Violent teenage criminals are increasingly vicious. John DiIulio, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, says that “the difference between the juvenile criminals of the 1950s and those of the 1970s and early 1980s was the difference between the Sharks and the Jets of West Side Story and the Bloods and the Crips. It is not inconceivable that the demographic surge of the next ten years will bring with it young criminals who make the Bloods and the Crips look tame.”

The Rising Tide of Juvenile Violence

According to the Council...