4 and 1994. *The nationwide juvenile arrest rate for violent crimes increased 50 percent between 1988 and 1994. Source: U.S. Dept. Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency More Statistics*Over the next ten years, the population of 14 to 17 year olds will grow 23 percent, and the current generation of juveniles has already brought us the worst juvenile crime rates in recorded history. *Since 1965, the juvenile arrest rate has more than tripled, and over the last ten years the homicide rate has more than doubled among 14 to 17 year olds. *During the 1980s, the white juvenile crime rate grew twice as fast as the black juvenile crime rate, and from 1983 to 1992, the arrest rate for murder grew 166 percent among blacks, but also grew 94 percent among whites. The increasing juvenile murder rate coincides with an increase in "stranger murders," suggesting juvenile predators are less discriminating in their targets. *While in the past most murders occurred between family members and friends, the FBI recently reported that 53 percent of homicides are committed by strangers. *"Stranger murders" are now four times as common as killings by family members. *Perpetrators of stranger murders have a better than 80 percent chance of not being punished. Source: Andrew Peyton Thomas (Assistant Attorney General for Arizona) Local police, prosecutors, and inner-city preachers know that the kids doing the violent crimes are more impulsively violent and remorseless than ever. For instance, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham who sits on the Council on Crime in America, speaks of the frightening reality of elementary school kids who pack guns instead of lunches. Likewise, Dan Coburn, a former Superior Court Justice and Public Defender in New Jersey, recently wrote that "This new wrote horde from hell kills, maims, and terrorizes merely to become known, or for no reason at all. These teens have no fear of dying and no concept of living." Eve...
