Vanishing Violence: Youth Crime Continues Historic Drop Across US
LAPPL News Watch
October 11, 2019
Youth crime continues to plummet across the country, with arrests of people under age 18 falling for the 13th straight year and reaching lows not seen in at least six decades, new FBI figures show.
Two decades after fear of “superpredator” teens spurred a wave of tightened punishment in California and beyond, the landscape is almost unrecognizable.
The number of juveniles arrested nationwide declined 11% from 2017 to 2018 alone, compared to a 2% drop for adults.
Arrests of young people for violent crimes — rape, robbery, assault and murder — fell 5%, while they actually increased slightly for those 18 and older.
The 2018 arrest rate among juveniles — 21.3 per 1,000 youths — is half of what it was in the 1960s and less than one-quarter of what it was in the mid-1990s, at the peak of a youth crime spike, according to an analysis of the FBI data provided to The San Francisco Chronicle by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco.
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