Willie Bosket had committed over two thousand crimes in New York by the time he was fifteen, including stabbing several people.  The son of a convicted murderer, he never knew his father but revered him for his "manly" crime.  Just before he was sixteen, his crimes became more serious.  Killing another boy in a fight, he then embarked upon a series of subway crimes, which ended up in the deaths of two men.  He shot them, he later said, just to see what it was like.  It didn't affect him.  He knew the juvenile laws well enough to realize that he could continue to do what he was doing and yet still get released when he was twenty-one.  He had no reason to stop. Yet it was his spree and his arrogance that brought about a dramatic change in the juvenile justice system, starting there in New York.  The "Willie Bosket law," which allowed dangerous juveniles as young as thirteen to be tried in adult courts, was passed and signed in six days.  Willie went on to commit more crimes, although none as serious as murder, and ended up with prison terms that ensured that he would spend the rest of his life there.