You can't have dogs on the mall. But that's kind of a bs thing. The man moves on. And a few of them are predatory individuals. Some of them are craving structure.
People tend to focus on all the petty theft and vandalism they bring to downtown.
What they ignore is that the kids are victimized more than anyone. We aren't doing these kids any favor by giving them a place to hang out. We're just setting them up. Becker accosts a young skateboarder and politely explains that he can't skateboard on the mall. The youth is defiant, uncertain, argumentative.