Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can record them without consent

Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by tptacek on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:57PM (#19608946)

12-year-olds stick people up. Young teenagers don't have fully-developed brains; it's probably "easier" for them to do this stuff, not harder. I have a hard time with the idea that you really think someone stops being a "kid" just because they commit a crime.

Recruiting a 15-year-old to fight in an armed conflict, by the way, is an action that has a name: "war crime".

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Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by dragonwriter on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:59PM (#19608976)

> Young teenagers don't have fully-developed brains

Neither do old teenagers; executive function isn't fully developed, IIRC, until the early-to-mid 20s.

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Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by rayiner on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:06PM (#19609027)

I don't think anyone past the age of puberty is a "kid." It may not be fair in any given circumstance to treat them like adults, but they're not children either. Societies have long recognized that fact. (There is a reason in Judiasm the Bar Mitzvah is at age 13.)

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Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by tptacek on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:26PM (#19609207)

Plenty of 12 year olds aren't past puberty, but by you're logic, they're not "kids".

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Re:Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can recor... by pcwalton on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:59PM (#19609470)

Life expectancy was also a lot lower when these rites were introduced.

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