Table 5.
City-wide Juvenile Arrests and Referrals to Juvenile Court Before, During and After YVP Coalition: 2006–2013 (Juvenile Population)
| 2006 (130,399) |
Coalition organized: 2007 (134,728) |
Coalition operated: 2008 (135,764) |
2009 (136,853) |
2010 (136,391) |
2011 (140,365) |
Coalition unfunded: 2012 (143,189) |
Coalition disbanded: 2013 (144,155) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total juvenile arrests: | 15,997 (12.27%) |
13,378 (9.93%) |
12,667 (9.33%) |
12,095 (8.84%) |
10,690 (7.84%) |
9,549 (6.80%) |
9,473 (6.62%) |
8,918 (6.19%) |
| Total not counting curfew or runaway: | 11,524 (8.84%) |
11,133 (8.26%) |
10,661 (7.85%) |
10,265 (7.50%) |
9,082 (6.66%) |
8,370 (5.96%) |
8,080 (5.64%) |
7,491 (5.20%) |
| Arrests for violent offenses: | 1,524 (1.17%) |
1,657 (1.23%) |
1,532 (1.13%) |
1,504 (1.10%) |
1,408 (1.03%) |
1,454 (1.04%) |
1,348 (0.94%) |
1,287 (0.89%) |
| Weapon-related arrests: | 640 (0.49%) |
620 (0.46%) |
525 (0.39%) |
438 (0.32%) |
481 (0.35%) |
533 (0.38%) |
393 (0.27%) |
410 (0.28%) |
| Homicide arrests: | 38 (.029%) |
22 (.016%) |
23 (.017%) |
29 (.021%) |
24 (.018%) |
16 (.011%) |
4 (.003%) |
11 (.008%) |
| Juvenile court referrals for violent crimes: | 1,832 (1.40%) |
1,575 (1.17%) |
1,228 (0.90%) |
711 (0.52%) |
649 (0.48%) |
618 (0.44%) |
577 (0.40%) |
424 (0.29%) |
Note: percents are total arrests and referrals divided by juvenile population, but % of individual juvenile offenders would be lower based on recidivism or multiple-crime arrests.