dking's Blog

If the kids defend themselves they are punished just the same. These little wannabe thugs want to wage war, let's show them what it's like. I'm all for getting just as nasty as they get. They want to shoot, let us shoot back, with bigger guns. They want to beat and kick, don't bother me when I kick and beat back. The only way to deal with these idiots is to get just as nasty and evil as they do. I think we should take it a couple of steps farther. To quote a line from the Untouchables: " If he sends one of yours to the hospital, send two of his to the morgue"

To bill01

Man you have no idea how much I want to agree TOTALLY with your whole comment. I kind of had to laugh to myself. Everything you said was true. But what sucks is that not everyone can or will be ready to fight back punks like that. There are many people, such as children, the elderly, or just the weaker individuals that cannot defend themselves. The police need to play a BIG - HUGE - MAJOR part in dealing with these ignorant wanna-be thugs who think they know it all. The police need to take more severe action in handling this bull instead of pulling people over in their cars for dumb crap. I was pulled over two weeks ago by a police officer in South County at 3 in the morning. My brother and I went to get something to eat and the officer "claimed" he pulled us over because he noticed my brother was not wearing his seat belt. He didn't even give me a ticket. Come on now....then after we pulled off, some idiot drove top speed like a bat out of hell down Lindbergh WHILE THE COP STILL FOLLOWED ME!! That was the talk of the day because it was amazing that the cop did not go after this guy. I know they saw him because the cop was behind me while I waited for my turn to go when the dude flew by!!!

Complain to the police department about doing more for the community, especially in the city! If they think that the gangs are going to cease just because they are watching over the metrolink, then they are sadly mistaken. The punks know they are there watching over that area. They will just move on somewhere else to beat up more people.

Let's go back to the old days and get off this sympathy(or someone elses' fault) ideas. You commit a horrendous crime,you pay with your life. Fast track executions...crime will go down. And if they are kids doing adult crimes,then they can be held to the same accountablity.

The only reason these mobs of kids are getting any attention, is because it is starting to effect the businesses at the Loop and Central West End. It was either someone well connected, or a tourist that was mugged or injured at the Metro Link. The only time any crime in St. Louis get this kind of attention is when it will effect the tourist or the "well connected". Remember the rash of crime they had downtown? I may be wrong, but I think it was mostly car theft, purse snatchings and the homeless people (I may very well be wrong, but that is what I remember) and it was threatening the "Loft District". After only 2 or 3 of these crimes it was all over the news and extra patrols were sent out. And, has anyone heard any thing from Mayor Slay lately? I haven't heard a word since the "Mokwa" issue.
If you want extra patrols anywhere in the city, you have to be either a tourist, or a well connected, affluent white person. And anyone who doesn't think Mayor Slay is a racist, should work for his family. I did, and I quit because I was ashamed to be associated with that company.
If I sound angry, I am. Every person in this city, regardless of social, economic, or ethnic background deserves the same protection from the police.
The police don't deal with these groups of kids, (I think) because for 1 thing, if it is a cop riding by himself, he can't confront the group safely, 2 nothing is going to happen to the kids anyway, so why bother.
These kids should have been stopped when it first happened! These are kids, get the police out there, even if you have to have some riding the t

Children use to be taught manners and to respect authority and their elders. When it became wrong, and abusive to correct your child in any way, we set the stage for this type of thing to occur. Kids need to learn from the very beginning that there are consequences for their actions. A 2 month old baby starts to learn this when they smile and get that over exaggerated response from the parents. When daycare became common place, it became the thing to do to tell a child,"hands are for touching, not for hitting" and that was the end of it. Parents starting asking their children, "Bobby, please stop running around the store," "Bobby, it's midnight, don't you want to go to sleep? (I actually heard this, asked to a 2 yr old, guess what his answer was) We became afraid to discipline our children because it might damage their self esteem, or someone would think we were abusive and call DFS. Children need boundaries, I think it makes them feel safer, children also need to learn how to handle things on their own, 2 two year olds fighting over a toy are not going to kill each other, let them fight it out (as long as they aren't using the toy as a weapon!). Let them learn that the way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them. Maybe if we taught them the tools to cope with these things, we wouldn't have kids committing suicide because they were teased by a bully. We wouldn't have such a problem with gangs because children would have learned to be leaders and not followers, they would have the skills needed to say no.
Just my opinion.

I was talking to a young black kid that I know, he lives in the heart of where the shootings are going on. He is a junior in high school and on the honor roll, he is polite, respectful and a hard worker. I asked him what kept him out of trouble, he said he was more afraid of his mother than of the gangs or the police! He told me that if he ever got into any trouble he wanted to go to jail, he would be safe from his mother there!
His mom is a single parent and has 1 other son. I'd say she's done a terrific job and we need more parents like her.

PARENTS YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT YOURSELF. How can anyone blame a politician for the works of their own kid?????

dwheeler I can not count high enough to tell you how many times a parent has said to me "I can not do a thing with little Johnny, who is 2" I find that amazing - an adult can not handle a 2 year old.
I tell them to handle them now at 2 or prison will handle them at 15.

And a 14 year old throwing a temper tantrum is violent!
You don't have to be harsh with a 2 year old, but YOU TELL him when it's bedtime, YOU decide if he's going to watch tv. YOU make him sit in the car seat, if you are going to give a 2 year old a choice it should be "Do you want to wear the red shirt or the blue shirt?" not, I'm going to put your shoes on now, ok? or Please stop kicking, mommy it hurts. I raised 3 children, I NEVER had any of my children hit me after the age of about 8 or 9 months. NEVER, I have been in the grocery stores and seen 4 or 5 yr olds hitting their mother (one time it was a father getting smacked in the face!), that is unbelievable to me. If a child is hitting you at the age of 3, he/she will hit you at the age of 10, 11, 12.
I really wasn't prone to spanking my kids, I saved that for things that were non negotiable, like running out into the street, or turning on the stove burners etc. I never asked my kids if they wanted to do something, that I knew they were going to do. I gave them choices, when I was ready to deal with whatever choice they made. I wasn't a perfect parent, but I could take them out in public without being ashamed of their behavior
and none of them ever went to jail.

You have to find a parent of these creeps that even care about these useless pieces of garbage. They don't care, the young people don't care. They only thing they think about is themselves. They are too stupid to learn anything, can't hold down a job, much less get one. Can't support themselves so they come after YOU. I just had an effort to break in my out building. They cased my house first and decided how they were going to do it. I had dusk to dawn lights, they unscrewed those, I have a motion detector, they unscrewed the bulbs on that, then tore a plant bracket off the front of the building to use as a pry bar to pry the hinge/lock off the door. The bracket bent, and they did not get into the building. I called the cops, they came, and its well there's nothing we can do since no one saw them. I know exactly who did it! The creeps down at the corner intersection!!! And, I told the cop - well, if you can't do anything, I CAN! He said 'well, you can do that,its OK, just don't make a habit of it". Ha! I now have an equalizer downstairs, upstairs, and in the attic, and one in the basement. Its fire first, ask questions later!!! My new motto!!!