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Dan Malouff of  BeyondDC.com gets interviewed by Grist about those pesky teens at Gallery Place. From “A shopping center tries to repel teens with the buzz of a powerful Mosquito“:

Malouff says that better policing should be the answer, not treating young people like a species of pest and moving the problem along. “If anyone’s breaking the law, then sure, we ought to have a police presence — maybe on foot as opposed to screaming up in cruisers when there’s a problem,” he said. “But saying that kids have to be doing organized team sports, or cooping them up in Mom’s basement and telling them they have to play video games, is just wrong. Our public spaces should be accepting of teenagers hanging out — which is what they do.”