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Article: Violent crimes by kids down // Reno reports 9.2% decrease for '96
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 3, 1997
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WASHINGTON The arrest rate for juveniles for violent crimes
dropped 9.2 percent in 1996, the second consecutive year it declined
after seven years of increases.
In announcing the figures Thursday, Attorney General Janet Reno
attributed the sharp drop to an emphasis on tougher punishment,
better policing and more attention to after-school youth programs.
Although arrests for violent youth crimes were down 2.9 percent
in 1995, "I have worried since that it might be a blip," Reno said.
"But this drop, I think, is real now."
The new FBI figures were reported as a Republican-sponsored
juvenile crime legislation, which the Clinton administration believes
contains too little money for such ...