According to the Department of Justice, in 2018, Law Enforcement agencies made an estimated 728,280 arrests of youth younger than 18-the fewest arrests of juveniles in nearly four decades. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program Arrest reports the number of arrests that law enforcement agencies made in a given year—not the number of individuals arrested nor the number of crimes committed. The bulletin describes that Juvenile arrests for violent crimes decreased 5% in the past year. Property crime arrests decline each year since 2008, and arrests rates for murder continue to increase (Although the juvenile murder arrest rate has increased annually since 2012, the rate in 2018 was 79% less than its 1993 peak). Another statistic in the bulletin described one-fifth of juvenile violent crime arrests involved females and more than half involved minority youth. Half of all juvenile arrests for violent crimes in 2018 involved black youth, 47% involved white youth, 2 % involved Asian youth. The bulletin mentioned black youth several times. For example, arrest rates for murder and robbery were much higher.

The Office of Justice Programs provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation’s capacity to prevent and reduce crime, assist victims and enhance the rule of law by strengthening the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Its six program offices support state and local crime-fighting efforts, fund thousands of victim service programs, help communities manage sex offenders, address the needs of youth in the system and children in danger, and provide vital research and data. The National Institute of Justice is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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