"I am so excited to see so many young people committing their time as young leaders," he said.
"You've got younger and younger juveniles committing more serious offenses.
Without that, you are not going to get young people committing to it," he added.
But family friends see this as straightforward: a case of a young man committing an act of pure evil.
Many vice cops, in particular, argued that forbidding the use of juveniles as C.I.s would force them to turn a blind eye to young people committing adult crimes.
"She even stopped a young man committing suicide," her nominator says of the notes, many of which turned up on social media.
As I hope the Leader would agree, that is profoundly offensive and it's the kind of language that leads to more young people committing suicide.
"You get young people committing crimes with guns in confined spaces, and it is going to turn awful a lot of the time," he said.
We're lectured about young people committing benefit fraud, while politicians stole far more through fiddling expenses and, in most cases, were just expected to pay it back.
There are an awful lot of young people committing increasingly violent crimes, including stabbings, serious assaults and an increase in gang culture which is quite worrying.
