I want to piggy-back on what Marshall said about the recruitment of youth in criminal activity down here. There could be a few steps made by government that would counteract this right away: first of all, if labour laws were changed so that people could obtain employment at a younger age; second, if the minimum wage were increased.
For kids who seem to be allured to engage in criminal activity, eight times out of ten it's solely for financial reasons. A 14-year-old and 15-year-old, a 13-year-old or 12-year-old has a need for money in the home, has a need for money for themselves, possibly. Maybe they want to play a sport or something like that, want to pay a registration fee, even go to a day camp or something, and the parents don't have the money for that. They're not of age to go out and get a job. If they do go out and get a job, in order to make enough money to pay for whatever they want to pay for, they're going to have to quit school and work 40-plus hours a week, or they can go to, like Marshall said, their older role model, who has money readily available to them. They say, “If I can make twenty bucks to be a runner, and I get paid twenty bucks a drop, as opposed to $8.60 an hour, what would you choose?”
A lot of these young kids are choosing the thing that will help rectify the situation most quickly, whether it be illegal or not. It's not so much that they have an allure or that they want to engage in activities, but that's the only way they can obtain the resources they're looking for at that time.