The cops are not there to parent kids. There are consequences to calling cops that parents don't realize. There was a woman whose son took a check and forged it for $100. She wanted to teach him a lesson, so she called the police and had him spend the night in jail. Next morning she dropped the charges and went and got him. Done deal? Nope, the state is charging him, he's 17/18, so stakes are higher now. He's had to get an attorney, minimum $2500, probably will only get some probation, but it's on his record now. His mother refuses to pay for the attorney, so his uncle and grandmother are, because they think mom went to far. It's sad, $100 bucks is going to cost them $2,500.
I just think there was a better way mom could have handled this. Granted I'm not sure how much trouble the boy has been in the past, and maybe she felt it was the best way to handle it. I don't know. |