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Watching Greg Kelly’s fury on Monday was a relief for every American tired of watching our cities spiral into chaos; he called it what it is — anarchy in the streets — and rightly applauded U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for finally turning talk into action. For months the left has made excuses for teen takeovers and violent flash mobs, but enough is enough: someone in power has to start enforcing the law instead of lecturing law-abiding citizens.
Pirro’s announcement that parents will be prosecuted when they knowingly allow or fail to prevent their children from participating in these dangerous takeovers is commonsense accountability — if you drop your kid off to join a mob, you should answer for it. Her office has made clear it will use existing statutes and juvenile-court authority to hold adults responsible when appropriate, and conservatives should cheer a prosecutor willing to do the hard thing.
The problem in Washington is not only lawlessness on the streets but the political leadership that tolerated it for so long; Pirro blasted the D.C. Council for failing to take curfew and juvenile delinquency seriously, and she’s right to call them out. Voters did not put soft-on-crime policies in place so their neighborhoods would become free-for-alls for masked teens who treat public safety like a joke.
This crackdown isn’t symbolic theater — federal resources and a planned summer surge are being marshaled to back it up, and prosecutors are publicly threatening fines, court-ordered classes, and even jail time for parents who abet juvenile lawbreaking. The D.C. government and police weren’t even fully looped in on some elements of the federal plan, which tells you how urgently the Justice Department believes it must act while local officials dither.
Make no mistake: curfews alone won’t fix decades of permissive policy that broke families and rewarded lawlessness, and many of the council’s supposed remedies are toothless if not enforced. Practical enforcement, parental responsibility, and real consequences are the only things that will deter future takeovers — hand-wringing op-eds and platitudes from the mayor’s office won’t do it.
Conservatives should stand with anyone — even a firebrand prosecutor and a gruff cable host — who finally puts public safety ahead of political correctness. If Washington won’t protect its own citizens, then federal authorities must, and ordinary Americans should demand the same accountability in their cities: hold the kids who break the law accountable and hold the parents who enable them accountable too.
