Exactly. And crime will never be zero as long as humans populate this country. The best you can do is reduce it and hold accountable those that still want to fuck around.
You shouldn’t have to provide the youths w/ alternate ways to keep their minds stimulated and keep them from going out and being a menace but you have to.. especially the less fortuned. You keep their minds busy and bingo suddenly their’s no energy or desire to wanna go and do this or that etc.
Go to the good part of town where there’s community centers, this sport league group, that sport group, this activity, that activity, guaranteed that juvie rate is down.
When there’s no funds to keep those centers opened or build more or maintain those courts or parks more crime is a result.
But nope lets pay for more tanks and more rockets and more fighter jets