We need to talk about the kids in Washington, D.C., and why blue cities need to wake up.
Last weekend, roughly 200 juveniles flooded Navy Yard, one of the city’s busiest dining and nightlife districts. What followed was exactly the kind of chaos D.C. residents have become far too used to: fights, robberies, businesses locking their doors, terrified residents ducking inside, two guns recovered and a 15-year-old accused of firing shots into the air. Three juveniles were reportedly robbed. Two of them were beaten badly enough to go to the hospital.
And my first thought when I saw the videos was not shock. It was, “Oh no, not again.” That is the problem…