My sister and I plugged fingers in our ears as our dad stood confused. We were crouched in front of a 7/11 convenience store which installed the latest deterrent to teenage loitering. The device was a Mosquito. A Mosquito is a security implementation that emits a high frequency tone that can only be heard by people under the age of twenty-five. This post examines the tangled morality of the new device. (Jan. 9. 2019. Taken by Spencer Wilkins) Finally, a safe way to deter adolescent loiterers. This is how Compound Security Systems (CSS), the Mosquito’s manufacturer, markets it. They categorize The Mosquito under the umbrella of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The theory of CPTED is that with strategic urban planning crime can be subliminally l owered. Flood lights and security cameras are both examples of CPTED items. CSS often compares The Mosquito t o the CPTED method of playing classical music as a deterrent, as both signal to young peop...