The new epidemic of black youth violence (opens in new tab)

Last summer, Chicago’s progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson used his first veto to kill an ordinance passed by the city council that would have given police authority to impose last-minute “snap” curfews for minors. The council had hoped to contain the city’s growing teen-takeover problem, in which large groups of predominantly black youth, organized on social media, descend on public destinations, and which often result in disorderly conduct and violence. Johnson argued that it was not construc...