because they know the small business with the best technology rules. laura: in the up resolved problem segment tonight. what s starting to look like a trend of violent teen mobs causing chaos. in philadelphia last week 40 young thugs went into a sears store then they stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in broad daylight. 16 kids were arrested. and, believe it or not, one of them was only 11 years old. there have been similar problems in chicago and atlanta and new orleans and in las vegas. joining us now from new york, curtis, radio host and founder of the guardian angels and cooper lawrence also a radio
cooper lawrence also a radio host. curtis, have you been at this for a long time watching criminal trends across the united states. how do police stay ahead of this situation when you get one message going out on the internet suddenly an hour later you have 100, maybe 200 people gathering and it overwhelms the authorities on the scene. well, laura, this started actually in philadelphia with art students who texting and emailing and facebooking and socially networking because they wanted to do people art. so, from drexel and all the universities they assembled and all of the sudden 10 became 100, and 100 became a thousand and the homeys saw this and said yo i have got that same technology wireless. then all of the sudden wolf packs those are the terms used. wolf packing. wilding has suddenly become this mobbing up in which all of a sudden you get people who are tweeting as the biggest twits in the world on twitter and then also obviously emailing and facebooking and i mean it becomes
know, one parent households and we have, you know, real problem with family breakdown. this happens across socioeconomic lines but it especially happens bill cosby and some have talked about happens in inner city poorer areas. there are no guardrails for the kids. they don t have a family structure. so they look for father figures and these gangs. i mean, again, have you been working in this area for decades now. and the problem has gotten worse, curtis. not better. with the family breakdown. i think it all goes back to the family. yeah, but laura, you can create the alternative as i have the guardian a angels 14 countries and 140 cities to give alternative rather than be gang bangers and antisocial it still comes down to when all of a sudden this mob gets rolling and flash mobbing. you have to use the language that they universally understand whether they re the young huckleberries or fakingen like adults leading this effort.
compliance. the cops can t be punching donuts out there. they have got to be busting their shoes. the way they do that is given a few wooden shampoos, few attitudinal punishment where they are sucking concrete outside of the store you will see how quick that antisocial behavior will stop. that s the language they universally understand. then you can get into the nitty gritty of why the furniture is upstairs and rearranged in the wrong rooms and they become enemies of society. laura: you have to control the problem first and then you can analyze why it s happening. cooper, i mean there is something to that, right? they are doing it because they know they can get away with it. curtis is absolutely right. he is absolutely right. laura: percentage will go with a faith based organization a guardian angel and actually get affiliated with someone who is going to, say don t act like a jerk it s going to ruin your life. the rest of these kids are going to gravitate towards something like
course persistent. the add low says sent limited kids are between 7 and 17. you sees a they get older it escalates where they become more interested in antisocial behavior. 17 starts to drop off and eventually they become normal citizens. but then a small percentage that love the crime. they start young and they keep at crime as long as they can. and they re the ones that instigate these other kids. you get kids that are interested in crime finding kids that, you know, may be playing around with it the thugs. find the kids that are a little interested and get them involved in these large groups. very important for police to understand hot real criminals are here and get them them to stop them from encouraging the younger kids and even younger. you mentioned 11. that s ridiculous, right? that s about the age. that s the pivotal age that that curiosity starts. laura: well, curtis, look, here is where we are today. we have a rampant fatherlessness problem in the united states of america