'Wilmington isn't Chicago or Los Angeles, Baltimore or Detroit. It is a city of less than 72,000 people known primarily as the birthplace of chemical giant DuPont and as a cozy home for big banks and Fortune 500 firms. But an Associated Press and USA TODAY Network analysis of Gun Violence Archive data — gathered from media reports and police press releases, and covering a 3½ year period through June of this year — reveals that Wilmington far and away leads the country in its rate of shootings among young people under 18.' A good start (if not new) to acknowledging the problem is that of a violent , youth subculture that holds neighborhoods hostage and everyone is afraid to speak up.This results in very low arrest rates and they quite literally get away with murder. Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...leads-us-in-teen-shootings/ar-AAruzFD?ocid=sf
A more in depth and worthwhile read: Wilmington: most dangerous place in America for youth WILMINGTON HAS THE HIGHEST RATE IN AMERICA, BY FAR, OF YOUNG PEOPLE BEING SHOT. THE RATE IS MORE THAN TWICE THAT OF TRENTON, THE NO. 2 CITY OF SIMILAR SIZE. http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/08/our-babies-killing-each-other/100135370/ again the core issues are a violent youth subculture of gangs, drugs ,crime ,social media and a popular culture that celebrates it , as well as an ineffective justice system that tries to treat them as 'children'
14-24 year old murderers commit about 50% of the entire murders in this country. Most of them gang members.
