When juvenile crime explodes in the community, many citizens may give up hope, thinking only in terms of their property loss of value. Some, given the possibility, may plan to leave the neighborhood in search for safer surroundings. That would be quite a pessimistic surrender.
Complaining to police and authorities for their lack of efficient prevention is missing the point. One should admit that there is a limit to what can be expected from them. There is however something else more effective to do if one happens to live in a youth crime stricken place.
One should in fact inquire what could the citizens themselves do to improve the quality of their life. Whatever the causes of juvenile delinquency that are responsible for the uncivilized behavior of those youth, it is not by repressive means alone that the problem is solved.
