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superpredator 

A term used to refer to dangerous youth in which rehabilitation seemed improbable. The term is considered a racist term as it was used almost exclusively in regard to African American youth.
"They're not just gangs of kids anymore, they are often the kinds of kids that are called Superpredators. No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we must bring them to heel." - Hillary Clinton 1996
superpredator by Rwhite84 May 29, 2016
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SuperPredator 

SuperPredator(noun): A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes as a result of being raised without morals. Also the term, "superpredators" was famously used by Hillary Rodham Clinton in describing troubled Black youths as Gangs of kids are "super predators" with "no conscience, no empathy" in the effort to get the crime bill, which resulted in the mass incarceration of blacks.
Sanders on Clinton's "SuperPredator" remark: "It was a racist term, and everybody knew it was a racist term"
SuperPredator by Bearmonster96 June 10, 2016
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superpredator 

1. a term used by criminologists to describe children who commit a huge number of crimes. The alarm was raised in "Body Count" (William J. Bennett and John P. Walters), which advanced the theory, since disproved, that these SUPERPREDATORS would sharply increase the level of teenage violence by the turn of this century. His prediction wasn't just wrong, it was exactly the opposite

2. a song by Massive Attack
researchers warned of a “superpredator” species of teenagers

superpredators 

what the clintons call young and people of color just chilling on the street
"They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are the kinds of kids that are often called superpredators. No conscious. No empathy."
superpredators by aaaay January 25, 2018