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I ended up getting into a wrestling match with someone last night. I tried to arrest a juvenile (he would definately pass for being 23 years old because he actually did with a fake ID and got into a bar). It is a long story but the juvenile had already been arrested that night and released by juvenile intake for an alcohol violation, curfew violation, and the fake I.D. When I saw the juvenile again I did a double take and called the officer that had the kid under arrest in the first place. The officer said that the kids was released to him mother and once they got out of the P.D. he took off on her. I was told to arrest him again.
When I went to arrest him he began to struggle with me. He was trying to pull away from me and he tried to swing at me a few times. I swept his legs out from underneath him and he went to the ground. I got on top of him and began to try to get his hands behind his back to arrest him and stop him from fighting with me. A few other techniques later I finally had him in custody. While I was wrestling around with him my handcuffs fell into the leaves so I had to get him into a hold until I could find my handcuffs (this took a little bit and it was a little fustrating because he was still fighting against me).
Guess what? Juvenile Probation wouldn't detain him again. They said that he didn't have enough points to meet the criteria to detain him and they had us release him to his mother again (the same person whom he ran off on earlier).
Is it me or is something not working right here? We take these out of control juveniles into custody and end up having to wrestling around with them and there is no immediate reprocussion for their actions. The punishment will come some time much later and that usually isn't much either. As bad as kids are today they need to put some teeth in the juvenile justice system.
When I went to arrest him he began to struggle with me. He was trying to pull away from me and he tried to swing at me a few times. I swept his legs out from underneath him and he went to the ground. I got on top of him and began to try to get his hands behind his back to arrest him and stop him from fighting with me. A few other techniques later I finally had him in custody. While I was wrestling around with him my handcuffs fell into the leaves so I had to get him into a hold until I could find my handcuffs (this took a little bit and it was a little fustrating because he was still fighting against me).
Guess what? Juvenile Probation wouldn't detain him again. They said that he didn't have enough points to meet the criteria to detain him and they had us release him to his mother again (the same person whom he ran off on earlier).
Is it me or is something not working right here? We take these out of control juveniles into custody and end up having to wrestling around with them and there is no immediate reprocussion for their actions. The punishment will come some time much later and that usually isn't much either. As bad as kids are today they need to put some teeth in the juvenile justice system.
Hugs for your patience!
A few years ago I got into a knock out, drag out fight with a juvenile that was about 6'3" and 280 pounds (Strong as hell too). We ended up in quite the situation because he had a gun in his waist band and I almost had to shoot him. If he had made one move down towards it I would have shot him, point blank, in the head. I got a black eye from the whole event.
I fought like hell to get him tried as an adult (he was 17) but they didn't try him as an adult. THey detained him in Juvenile Detention until he was 21. He was then released. A few months after he was released he walked up to another drug dealor on the streets and shot her in the head. He then turned the gun on himself.
If he was tried as an adult he would have still been in jail and that would have never happened.
I guess the thinking is when you're under 18, hey, everyone makes mistakes. Why should you have to pay for a mistake you made as a kid for the rest of your life?
But some kids and adults don't have any sense of limits. It's all a game to them.
Reminds me of my time in the military: Do whatever you want, just don't get caught doing it.
Maybe after he turns 18 and he gets busted for A&B on an officer, it'll finally stick.
There are some kids that deserve to be kept out of the system...but repeat offenders need to be prosecuted and prosecuted hard.
I forgot to mention that this kid was already on probation and parolle when all of these things happened. THey use a point system in Virginia and you really have to do something bad to meet the points...6 misdemeanor charges aren't enough!