The Governor’s Office wants to focus on the numbers, showing a statewide decline in young people committing certain crimes, like a 26% decline in decline in juvenile homicide arrests, and 46% decline in non-fatal shootings of juveniles.
And the Department of Juvenile Services secretary highlights the fact that the majority of children on GPS monitoring don’t re-offend.
“92% is not a bad record. It’s just the 8% drives a lot of the conversation,” DJS Secretary Vincent Schiraldi told WMAR-2 News in a recent interview…