Juvenile crime in Baltimore is well below where it was almost a decade ago, according to a report released this week, cutting against city leaders who say criminal youths are an urgent threat to public safety.
Average monthly juvenile arrests in Baltimore last year were almost a third of the 2016 number, the Abell Foundation said in its probe of recent trends in underage offending, although city leaders said the study was based on incomplete data.
Additionally, the report said fiscal 2025 complaints against youngsters — which qualify as any contact with police, not only arrests — are on par with where Baltimore was in fiscal 2018 and well below where it was in fiscal 2017…