I say find these kid's parents/guardians and flog them in public.

Bust 4 young thugs in holdup
Thursday, April 23, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Four 12-to 14-year-old Jersey City boys have been charged with using a fake gun in an attempted robbery of a 13-year-old who was walking home from school Tuesday evening.

Arrested at School 14 on Bayview Avenue at about 5:30 p.m. were two 12-year-olds, one of Neptune Avenue, the other of Bartholdi Avenue; a 13-year-old Morton Place boy, and a 14-year-old Garfield Avenue boy, reports said. They were charged with robbery and weapons offenses, reports said.

The victim told police that at about 5:05 p.m. the four boys approached him at Bidwell and Ocean avenues and one of them asked if he had said something disrespectful about the "Park Side" street gang, reports said.

The victim told them he hadn't said anything about the gang and tried to leave, but he was grabbed by the 14-year-old, who told him to "run his pockets," reports said.

Then the 12-year-old Bartholdi boy pulled out what turned out to be a replica gun and threatened to strike the 13-year-old with it if he didn't give up his bicycle, reports said.

But the four boys ran when they spotted a police cruiser.

After interviewing the victim at his home, police drove the area with the boy and his mother and the victim recognized the four boys at the school, reports said.

The four boys were arrested and the replica gun was found in a garbage can lid nearby, reports said. Park Side is a street gang based in the southwestern part of Jersey City, reports said.