Hey sobbing families of "victims", how many millions of people don't invade the homes of others? How many millions don't gang up to increase their chances for an attempted home invasion? Go cry us a freaking ocean.
I think the thug families get so upset mostly because they lost a good source of stolen free stuff and money that the kiddos were constantly bringing home and providing the parents with.
That's why there's so many juvenile delinquent thug criminals out there. They know with petty stuff like shoplifting, car and home break ins they might never even get caught, and if they do, it's only a slap on the wrist, and 9 times out of 10 they will get released right back to the parents again. Especially if it's a first or second offense. And they also know, when they finally hit 18 or 21 depending on the state, that when they get busted, they are now in the adult system and they will start to lock them up for a while.
This is why I feel the states need to start cracking down HARD on juvenile offenders, I don't care what the crime is, and stop coddling them and pretending they can be rehabilitated. By the time most of them get caught as juveniles they have already committed multiple crimes, maybe 50 or a hundred in some cases or more, and there is no point in pretending to rehabilitate them or release them back to their parents at that point.
They need to start locking them up at 14 or 15 and show them exactly what it's going to be like at 18 or 21 if they continue on that criminal path. Obviously, they won't be with the adults locked up, and the sentences should be shorter than an adult sentence for theft as a juvenile, but you get the idea.