Dueling headlines from the New York Post. A dispatch from our nation’s capital,
Minors account for half of DC’s carjacking arrests since 2023 — including pint-sized perps as young as 12.
Yet, Democrats continue to lecture me about “local control.” The Post notes,
Since August 2023, DC police have collared 333 carjacking suspects and 56% of those busts were of kids under 18, figures from Metropolitan Police Department show.
And 60% of the juveniles arrested for stealing cars were 15 or 16 — but ages ranged from 17 to as young as 12, according to police records.
The Post notes that DOGE-sensation “Big Balls” was recently the victim of a vicious assault at the hands of around 10-or-so “youths” as he attempted to prevent a DC carjacking. Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in that case.
Adjacent to that story was this update on the continuing crisis,
Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: ‘I feel a sense of safety from childhood’.
The Post claims that this is a trend catching on in China of all places, with further claims that it is spreading.
The trend isn’t staying swaddled in China, either.
TikTok is sucking it up — literally — with videos of American adults pacifying themselves in traffic, at work, or in the throes of burnout.
For my part, I simply don’t believe it. But I can understand why some would,
As previously reported by The Post, some members of Gen Z are flocking to “Adulting 101” crash courses, desperate to learn how to change a tire without FaceTiming their dads, how to read an electric bill without crying and/or how to fold a fitted sheet without having an existential crisis.
Overall, it looks like growing up may be hard — but for some, giving it the pacifier treatment is a lot easier to swallow.
We have an entire generation unable to make the jump from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the trailing generation skipped childhood and went straight to a life of hardcore crime.
