Flashmobs are gaining in frequency. What to do?

[Lost Lake]

According to the news this morning, the riots in London have taken a turn...
Street vigilantes are 'taking back the streets'. Groups of men are attacking what appeared on television as groups of black teens.
They even filmed white men throwing rocks at buses that had black teens on board. I don't know if those teens had done something of if it has just turned into a racial war....

 

[gregintenn]

Couldn't somone at the police dept. moniter facebook? I'm sure most have people working there who frequent it anyway.

 

[Lost Lake]

Couldn't somone at the police dept. moniter facebook? I'm sure most have people working there who frequent it anyway.

In Greensboro they have a flashmob every weekend in the park. Up to 400 teens run through the streets and park knocking people down and vandalizing buildings and vehicles. This happens EVERY weekend.

The park is right across from the police station.

There isn't much the police can do.

 

[luis]

The only way to stop flash mods is to treat them like terrorist. Once several hundred are looking at life in prison it will stop.

 

[bummer]

a battery of 12 pounders with a canister rounds

 

[ContinentalOp]

Charge them with criminal conspiracy and RICO violations.

 

[Jamie]

In Greensboro they have a flashmob every weekend in the park. Up to 400 teens run through the streets and park knocking people down and vandalizing buildings and vehicles. This happens EVERY weekend.

The park is right across from the police station.

There isn't much the police can do.

What exactly are the laws concerning guns in this area?

 

[DAVEB47]

To me a mob would be considered a lethal weapon and warrants an equal response. As others have said, go armed and be alert.

 

[Steve in Vermont]

I'm not saying criminals in my area are dumb, but they couldn't organize a bake sale, let alone a flash mob.

 

[cmort666]

I'm not saying criminals in my area are dumb, but they couldn't organize a bake sale, let alone a flash mob.

Don't bet that somebody ELSE couldn't organize them.

We're talking about mob violence, not building a nuclear bomb.

You just need one guy with middling planning skills and a few underlings who can tell time and follow simple instructions.

Look at the history of street gangs in places like Chicago. There are no Einsteins running these operations, just a few people with decent organizational skills and no morals.

 

[Lost Lake]

And really, a flashmob is just a group of teens that go running through the streets knocking over old people, punching couples and men, and smashing cars, windows and anything not bolted down.
To be completely honest, I can see the attraction they have to this activity. They loot and get new things, they are in a huge group whooping and running and having fun, and they can take out aggression on helpless people with no repercussions.

It is easy to organize, just post it on facebook and if more than 6 show up, you're off to the races.

Stopping it is the hard part.

I saw a non-lethal sticky spray once that tangles a running person... Maybe something like that to catch these thugs....

 

[foxtail]

Look at the history of street gangs in places like Chicago. There are no Einsteins running these operations, just a few people with decent organizational skills and no morals.

Chicago, no Einstein,decent organizational skills (political organizer), no morals. It sounds like our President.

 

[imjin138]

They have caught one 16 year old so far, and it took them a week to admit they actually had a problem. Wisconsin will soon have a viable conceaed carry law. As soon as they make up some rules/regulations for it.

Stay away from large crowd areas, go armed and stay aware. Racine has a very nice zoo, for75 years it was free to get into but because of mobs of teens harrasing the animals and other patrons of the zoo it has a $5.00 charge now. Most of these flashmob teens won't spend the money to get in. State fair that day had half price fare to get in so it was easier.


Just like the fireworks event on the 4th of july in Milwaukee a small riot occured the police denied anything happened until confronted with irrefutable evidence. I work in Milwaukee now and don't think that this type of action doesn't cross my mind every day. While I was on vacation there was more gunfire across the street from the prison I work at, my first week there a man was shot 3 times at the gas station across the street.

As the police now say these teens did this for fun, no other reason was needed.

 

[mc5aw]

It's all "fun" until some of these fun-loving teens get beaten down or killed by someone they assaulted while engaging in their flashmob brand of fun.

 

[cmort666]

It's all "fun" until some of these fun-loving teens get beaten down or killed by someone they assaulted while engaging in their flashmob brand of fun.

A day or so ago, a holdup man here had his gun taken away by his victim who shot him to death. My only criticism is that the victim should have been carrying his own firearm and skipped the wrestling match.

 

[MotorCityGun]

I recall they used to call this type of teen mob/gang activity "wilding" or similar term. Now with the advent/use of technology it's flash mobs.

 

[rz625-8]

Time to bring out the .50 BMG's.

 

[cmort666]

Time to bring out the .50 BMG's.

The ROKs used to use 106mm RCLs and canister for this kind of thing. It's what they considered a "crowd control device".

 

[jtpur]

Don't bet that somebody ELSE couldn't organize them.

We're talking about mob violence, not building a nuclear bomb.

You just need one guy with middling planning skills and a few underlings who can tell time and follow simple instructions.

Look at the history of street gangs in places like Chicago. There are no Einsteins running these operations, just a few people with decent organizational skills and no morals.

Organizer????You mean something like a "Community Organizer" I can think of one such person just off the top of my head....Chicago, community organizer....how quaint.

 

[foxtail]

Organizer????You mean something like a "Community Organizer" I can think of one such person just off the top of my head....Chicago, community organizer....how quaint.

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