While Brownsville is scrambling to ease its growing pains, it is blindly ignoring teenagers and not adequately providing for younger children, according to a recent national study. Brownsville nearly flunked the annual Kid Friendly Cities Report Card, conducted by the environmental organization Zero Population Growth. It was given a D and ranked No. 100 out of 112 major cities. D.C. Teenagers questioned at random backed up the study s assertions, though for their own reasons. It s a waste of time to hang out here.
Some officials didn t agree with that statement.
I don t buy the there s nothing to do in Brownsville excuse. Kids don t go across because Brownsville is boring. They go to drink. Orlando Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Brownsville Police Department. However, the study didn t rely on people s opinion nor emphasize the number of nightclubs, movie screens or playgrounds in a given city.