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Should cities require chaperones for underage visitors in public squares?

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There is no "youth" problem. There is, as there always has been, a problem of bad kids. In the 1950s, they were white and looked like greasers from a biker movie. They remained mostly white and mostly greaser-like through the '60s and '70s. Although no one wants to admit it, they were the bad kids who grew up to be the bad adults who fill our jails and prisons. Unfortunately, most of them lived in urban environments. Now, with the added gun and drug factors, and decades of movies, TV, and video games glorifying and idolizing those things, especially for Black kids, we have hundreds of thousands of gang members and kids trying their best to act like gang members in order to earn what they think is respect. Throwing money and time at do-gooders who want to solve a massive, complicated, and life-threatening problem with things like after-school places for kids to hang out and evening basketball games is like going to war with Iran using rubber duckies and paper airplanes. What we need are people who understand the problem and are ready and willing to confront it.