A lot of these posters are well read and got book knowledge but selfish as fck and lack people skills.. Too many times i've seen people cars simply break down and cant afford to get it fixed. They end up losing their jobs.. They speak about "poverty" so much, but don't understand that its a long climb trying to get out of that shyt. And a stolen car will put people in a jam. Then they get smart/dumb and say "well they got insurance" not even knowing that a lot of people can only afford the state minimum which has no full coverage. I can go on and on.. I see why some have the problems the have because they're narrow minded.
Exactly. A lot of people simply can't afford the cost of what happens if their car gets stolen. They will find it extremely hard to get to work, especially if they have to waste extra money ubering or taking a taxi every day. It will be hard to go to the grocery store, pick up kids, or handle any emergencies. It could result in a job loss because someone doesn't have all the extra money to constantly take ubers and taxis to work and they don't know anyone to pick them up and drop them off.
Stealing someone's ride isn't some trivial thing. It has huge economic repercussions for many people. On top of that, if you are in a neighborhood that has a reputation for being dangerous, the odds are that you can't call the cops because then you will be known as a tattle tell or rat and people might end up shooting at your house or harassing you for 'working with them folks'. So what are people to do? Just let people steal their property and suffer? The reality is that if there are no repercussions, there are no lessons learned. They literally found another stolen car not that far away, which they believed that boy had stolen previously, meaning this is a pattern of behavior and this boy saw nothing wrong with what he was doing.
These young boys grow up in environments where there is little authority and they are in fact taught to buck against authority until they get in prison or come across some crazy cop. When these teens go up in prison and try to take something from somebody else's cell, what's going to happen? They are going to face the same fate as in the street, which is getting killed or severely injured. Sooner or later somebody is going to deliver the lesson that taking somebody else's property isn't the move and repercussions come with that.
It's sad that a 13 year old boy got killed, but the reality is that the failure occurred long before this situation. A 13 year old boy has no business roaming the streets at night or in the early morning or being in anyone's property. People will not have any mercy, especially during those hours. This isn't this boy's first time stealing a car either, so whoever taught him this knowledge needs to be checked as well.