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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (8410)	11/24/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 82268

This perhaps is a positive affect from the economy who knows exactly what has caused this be it parents due to more money less stressed, be it knowledge that is more accessible than was. I hope it is not a prelude to 88 and a downdraft ready to begin tho i feel we will grow for a few more years yet. Violent Youth Crime at Decade Low The Associated Press Nov 24 1999 6:42AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Violent juvenile crime reached its lowest level in a decade in 1998 and has fallen 30 percent since 1994, according to Justice Department figures. The juvenile arrest rate for four types of violent crimes - murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault - was 394 per 100,000 youths aged 10-17, the lowest since 1988, the department said Tuesday. That includes 112,200 total arrests during 1998. A study of juvenile arrests in 1998 found significant decreases for every violent crime, including a drop of almost 50 percent in the juvenile murder arrest rate from 1993 to 1998, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention said. These figures continue trends that began in the mid-1990s. Police executives, academics and politicians have attributed the decreases to a decline in demand for crack cocaine, truces between remaining crack gangs that provided guns to juveniles in the 1980s, police crackdowns on illegal guns and stiffer sentences for repeat violent offenders. The juvenile office's analysis, Juvenile Arrests 1998, using data gathered by the FBI's uniform crime reports for 1998, also found a 33 percent drop in the arrest rate for weapons law violations by juveniles between 1993 and 1998. The study also showed these other declines in juvenile arrests per 100,000 youths aged 10 to 17: Rape, down 25 percent from 1991 to 1998. Aggravated assault, down 20 percent from 1994 to 1998. Robbery, down 45 percent from 1995 to 1998, now at the lowest level since 1980. Burglary, down 22 percent from 1989 to 1998, and 50 percent from 1980 to 1998. Larceny-theft, down 19 percent from 1989 to 1998. Motor vehicle theft, down 39 percent from 1989 to 1998.