Youth Gangs?

Singapore media presently have a preoccupation with youth gangs (Nov 2010).

But is the problem so bad?

Yesterday I was walking on a footpath when a group of five mid to late teens came riding by, on the footpath and mounted on pushbikes. They were in black Ts, with unkempt hair, course language and apparent indifference to other people. A gang?

We all came to a set of traffic lights. Some walkers (including me) crossed against the lights when there was evidently no cars. The teens on bikes waited meekly until the lights changed and then rode off .... all that training in social compliance showing its fruits!