Juvenile Crime
The Juvenile Crime topic page is a resource for cops, SROs and others dealing with juvenile crime and offenders, with news and information about everything from minors engaging in sexting to dealing with violent, potentially deadly kids.
Agencies that build formal collaboration channels between patrol, detectives and SROs can solve juvenile cases faster, build stronger cases and achieve better outcomes for youth
How police and schools can work together to prevent school shootings and improve student safety
Expanded cyberbullying statutes are shifting routine school discipline to detectives, creating juvenile cases that rarely meet criminal thresholds and strain investigative resources
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio says the boy’s body was discovered on a sidewalk
Officers’ encounter with a man whose weapon was thought to be real used in presentation to discourage gun crime, gangs
Monday’s attack was the first assault with a weapon at the school since the 1999 shootings that left 12 students, a teacher and the two teen gunmen dead
Meriden police planned to seek an arrest warrant for the boy’s mother on charges of risk of injury to a child
Officers responded Thursday night to learn that a group of boys and girls had a dispute with another passenger
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said videos of youth violence are ending up online more frequent everywhere
Six teenagers were being questioned by Chicago police Tuesday after a video was posted online showing the brutal beating of a 17-year-old
An Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer cited a teen driver who nearly hit his cruiser
Police chief: Officers acted to protect themselves and other students, firing three shots
“He had plenty of opportunities to lower the weapon...and he didn’t want to,” said Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez.
The juvenile driver of the stolen vehicle may be tried as an adult
A fight at the food court led to ''other altercations’’ involving 50 juveniles, police said
Certain offenses attract more attention in less-tolerant society
A panel of three juvenile justice experts met Wednesday
Police responded to disorderly students outside a school and deployed a less-lethal device when one became unruly
Agent Isaac Pizarro-Pizarro of the Puerto Rico Police Department was driving to a family member’s home
Educators face tough challenges when trying to keep a child - and others - safe during violent outbursts
3 teenagers arrested in plot made no attempt to deny planning to shoot ‘indiscriminately’
The decision in J.D.B. v. North Carolina has signaled a major change in the Miranda landscape
McCarthy: ‘We’re gonna find every one of ‘em’
Two years ago, Vincent Richardson sauntered into the Grand Crossing District station in a uniform, duping cops in an embarrassing stunt
7-year-old boy had 18 bags of the drug, handed them out to friends
Probation search yielded two pipe bombs in 16-year-old’s room
Crude list ranked girls at Oak River High School by their sexual characteristics and behaviors
Within hours, the teen was captured during a routine car stop in North Philadelphia
The boy threw a violent tantrum at his elementary school and tried to stab officers with a piece of wooden wall trim
The 13-year-old girl ran away from a Utah foster care facility days earlier with 31-year-old man, leading to the gunfight
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