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"When I was growing, I didn't need the system..."


"...to take care of my problems"

"People don't know how to parents" - Judge Chivarelli.


Doesn't that tell you where the real problem lies? Jailing kids for minor offenses, for extended periods of time just turns them into criminals. Why not put your efforts where the problem really lies - parenting and the society that these children are growing up in nowadays. Children are always going to get into mischief, it's all part of growing up and development.

It's people like this guy who are the reason things like Columbine happen. They create such a separation between adolescence and adulthood that neither will respect each other. Our adolescence needs us to guide them, not judge them!

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The funny thing is, the judge actually should have gone to "the system". It's been a while since I watched this, but he told a story about how he should have gotten in trouble for something and they just released him to his parents and they handled it.

Correct me if I'm remembering it wrong. It was something that was much worse than what most of the kids in the documentary did.

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His father "handled" it by punching his lights out, it seemed like he was saying society needed parents to be more abusive to their children, and since parents weren't resorting to violence as the their first option, then harsh judges like him were needed. Sounds like he was off his rocker a little, the system should have weeded out this nutcase long ago.

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His father "handled" it by punching his lights out, it seemed like he was saying society needed parents to be more abusive to their children,


My point is he should have been handled by the system. But he got "leniency" (from the system) the thing he later was opposed to (aka leniency from the system).

Seems a bit hypocritical to me. But more narcissists are.

and since parents weren't resorting to violence as the their first option, then harsh judges like him were needed.


Which was ironic b/c his dad did beat him and he still should have been in the system.

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The way I picked the story up was that they were going to steal a car (him and his cousin) but he didn't get involved in it and the cop took him home.

His Dad punched him for turning up at the door with a copper putting his mum in to a right state.

Clearly the abusive nature of that relationship was past the fine line of "a smack on the bottom here and there keeps a kid in line" and "I'm going to beat you up despite not really having done wrong"

Clearly the judge was a dick hell bent on over sentencing children whether he got kickbacks or not.

I understand the mentality of zero tolerance to an extent but for actual crimes like carrying a knife of the likes not simply throwing trash on the street or trivially mouthing off on-line. Rehabilitation and education is far better in those situations.

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