Wisconsin’s law mandating adult prosecutions of juveniles is a legacy of the 1990s panic over “superpredators”—the allegedly cold-blooded, conscienceless, and often Black kids who would supposedly kill for sport, without remorse, who criminologists warned were about to overwhelm the country.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-was-a-minor-prosecuting-him-as-one-may-have-been-better/
