1. Why is CBL Properties, which owns and manages Monroeville Mall near Pittsburgh, implementing a Youth Escort Policy on weekends at the mall? Be specific.

2. What exactly does the policy entail?

3. Is this the first mall to implement such a policy? Explain your answer.

4. A 17 year-old shot three people at Monroeville Mall over the weekend, but mall management had already been considering the Youth Escort Policy. For what reasons were CBL Properties already considering implementing the policy?

5. What “unsupervised minors” policies do other malls across the country have?

6. CBS News reports:
26 year-old Kristie Ferreira of St. Louis shopped and worked at the St. Louis Galleria mall, where she was carded frequently. Ferreira says younger adult shoppers were profiled, and many stopped shopping there with stores losing money. “I do think sales go down,” she says.
CBL Properties’s Stacey Keating disagrees. “Overall, the program has been very beneficial to those malls that have needed to control a teen issue, and sales have gone up because families are coming back to the mall to shop,” says Keating.

a) Do you think a Youth Escort Policy will cause malls to lose money? If so, what do you think mall owners should do about groups of teens causing trouble? If not, explain your answer.

b) Ask a parent: should malls wait until something happens before implementing this type of policy, or should they be proactive? Would you stop or limit your visits to a mall where huge disturbances/fights have occurred? Explain your answers.