We’re still putting together the pieces of this story, but it appears that the burglary case has been largely solved.
When we got home last night after dinner in town with friends, there were several phone messages waiting for us. At that point it was too late to return those calls.
This morning we were stopped by the friend of a friend. He spotted our prime suspect last night and, when he couldn’t reach us, he called the police. He gave the responding officer a copy of the photograph, printed from the version posted online, and told him the story of our burglary. But this officer reportedly was jaded, said there wasn’t much he could do, that there are too many cases like this, the courts don’t do anything, and he left.
But then another officer responded. This officer said that he would talk to the family and if they identified their son as the one in the photo, he would make an arrest.
I don’t know for sure if that happened, but this morning I was told that the young man was arrested and later confessed to breaking into our house with a friend. His mother says he’s remorseful, and she is now trying to see if any of the items taken can be recovered.
I also don’t know if the second person has been identified or arrested. And I don’t know whether any of the things taken will be recovered.
But it felt good to see the way so many people in Kaaawa came together and responded to the problem.
Kaaawa is still a community and has proven again that, given a chance, we can cooperate to deal with our problems.
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One fundamental problem with the juvenile justice system is the failure to protect the public from their own neighbors kids. Since the names of the youthful criminals are held sancrosanct, there is no way for the neighbors to know if there is a problem kid in their midst. If it “take a village” to raise a kid, it would only be right to be able to let the neighbors know if he is troubled. If he or she is, may be a concerned neighbor can take the time to lend a hand or an ear to a kid that needs it. Not knowing what is happening, just serves to isolate the kid from his community.
The liberal, coddling, social workers who think that not exposing the child’s name to his community is neither protecting the kid or the community. All it has provided for is the continued free fall for the kid in to the uncaring , bureaucratic juvenile justice system that guarantees his occupancy at OCCC when he hits 18.