How did George treat other (bad) teenagers in his neighborhood?

George quietly kept his distance from the boys that got into trouble. He avoided them.

Within three blocks of the apartment complex where I lived, there were at least fifteen guys around my age. We broke into cliques, with two different groups doing things I just wasn’t willing to do: they sold drugs, stole cars, beat up guys outside their circle, and caused all kinds of havoc in the neighborhood. The rest of us hung out together and avoided the troublemakers, though sometimes we all got together for football.