The social media component of this crime wave is huge, as victims with insight on the perpetrators' social scene will tell you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/car-theft-teens-pandem... (https://archive.ph/XCzB4)

On the bright side, Wisconsin (home to Milwaukee and the Kia Boys) is poised to increase penalties on vehicle theft:

https://www.weau.com/2023/04/18/wisconsin-assembly-aims-hars...

And Kia Boys who are arrested will potentially be held in jail for longer, which in practice will prevent them from committing more crimes as they await trial:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/... (https://archive.ph/tT8Xr)

So long as these kids remain unparented and out of control they will continue to destroy their own lives, the lives of others, and communities which tolerate their behavior.

They only go unpunished in some parts of the country.