Family in trouble for kids walking home

[Guest MormonGator]

Talk about your 'nanny state'.

 

 Oh it's much worse than a nanny state. Like the journalist Michael Kelly said, "It's the Nurse Ratched" state. Just sit down, shut up and take your medicine. Nursey knows best. 

[carlimac]

My daughter lives in this area. Helicopter parenting is epidemic back there. 

[Litzy]

I'm all for this legal action. No matter where you stand on the parenting issue, no cop has the right to outright lie like that to children in custody. A cop should not be promising to take kids home, driving them around for three hours, refusing to let them contact their parents, etc.

[Capitalist_Oinker]

This incident is just another syndrome of the “it takes a village to raise a child” disease. 

We should always remember that when villages are allowed to raise children the village idiots will have their say.

[davidstarfall]

Do any of us really know anything about the crime rates in Silver Springs, Maryland?

[Guest]

Do any of us really know anything about the crime rates in Silver Springs, Maryland?

According to Sperling's, it's the same as Salt Lake City.

[unixknight]

Do any of us really know anything about the crime rates in Silver Springs, Maryland?

 

Yes.  If I go outside and fire my bow due west, the arrow will land in Silver Spring.  (My profile location says Baltimore but that's where I work, not where I live.)

 

Not much crime there.  Silver Spring is mostly affluent with lots of retail and office buildings.  Demographically it's mostly a mix of hispanic and black with a sizable population of whites also.  We're not talking about the seedy underbelly of society here.  My 7 year old daughter's school is within Silver Spring's limits and I am not worried about her safety, and we've never had a problem.

Edited April 22, 2015 by unixknight