BATON ROUGE – Despite an effort by lawmakers last year to curb crime by treating 17-year-old offenders as adults, juvenile crime is up in Baton Rouge.
“Thirteen to fifteen percent of our felony arrests are juveniles,” Baton Rouge Police Chief T.J. Morse said.
While 17-year-olds have been going to adult jail for more than a year now, Morse says the 15-and-16-year-olds seem to be making up for their absence…