The report is here.
I encourage you to read the report. I will briefly mention some things I found interesting.
- Juvenile crime was pretty steady from 2014 to 2019. Obviously, 2020 to 2022 is a tough three-year stretch to compare due to what happened then with COVID-19, the government’s response to COVID-19, and rioting. We’ll see what happens when 2023 is compared to 2014 through 2019 and 2022. Barring anything unusual happening in society, I suspect the 2023 data will begin to look like a continuation of 2014 through 2019.
- Juvenile crime follows a similar downward crime trajectory that violent crime has been following since 1993. There are moments of slight increase, only to be followed by a further downward trend.
- I was shocked to see this in the report: “In both 2021 and 2022, juveniles accounted for a larger percentage of arrests for carjacking than for any other violent crime.” Since these are arrests, there are likely more who attempted or completed a carjack but didn’t get caught. There is an opportunity for a deep dive here to understand the circumstances around these incidents.