Hennepin County Sherriff expressing concern over youth crime tied to social media posts

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt links vaping and social media to a surge in juvenile crime. Photo credit (Photo by Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Images) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KFGO/WCCO) – Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt links vaping and social media to a surge in juvenile crime. Sheriff Witt expressed concern over youth posing with weapons on platforms like Snapchat and urged parents to monitor their children’s online activity. She told WCCO i t ‘is not snitching, it’s saving lives.’ “You know, guns are still a thing, as I said before, with kids looking for guns in these cars,” the sheriff explains. “Well, Snapchat has been quite the frequent tool that’s been used where you have kids that are posing on Snapchat with guns.” Witt is calling for reinstating juvenile centers amid what has been an uptick in youth crime across the Twin Cities. She argues that the closure of facilities like Totem Town has created a “revolving door” of crime, and that troubled youth need accountability and appropriate rehabilitative resources. “I do think they need to bring those places back,” Witt explained. “I do think that they need to have appropriate program and rehabilitative services. Don’t look at it as
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