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  • Reducing juvenile arrests won't by itself end racial disparities: Opinion

    08/27/2017 12:53:25 PM PDT · by BBell · 34 replies
    http://www.nola.com/ ^ | 8/27/17 | Jarvis DeBerry
    The Louisiana Center for Children's Rights has a graph on its website that shows that in 2013, 96 percent of the juveniles who were arrested in Orleans Parish were black. If you think that's outrageous, then you should look at the statistic from 2014 when 97 percent of the juvenile arrests in Orleans Parish were of black children. But, wait, there's more. In 2015, the last year that's on the LCCR's graph, 99 percent of the juveniles arrested in Orleans Parish were black. Those statistics bring to mind a point that author Michelle Alexander makes in "The New Jim Crow,"...