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In recent years, Louisiana has made substantial headway in fine-tuning its Criminal Justice system to reflect a substantial decrease in the number of arrests and detention of its citizens. The changes in arrest data since 1998 and 1999 are substantial when you consider that in 1999, Tim Roche, the Deputy Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice to the Louisiana State Senate reported that Louisiana had the highest juvenile residential custody rate of any state in the nation for a total of over 56 percent of its youth being detained. By 1999, this statistic had dropped to 51 percent, according to Roche, however, Louisiana retained the number one spot because its arrest and detention rate is double that of any surrounding state.
This changed with the inception of Louisiana’s Office of Youth Development (OYD).... Statistics cover the period pre 1999 and post 1999 to 2003. 5 references. jvLAarst.rtf
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number of arrests and detention of its citizens. The changes in arrest data since 1998 and 1999 are substantial when you consider that in 1999, Tim Roche, the Deputy
Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice to the Louisiana State Senate reported that Louisiana had the highest juvenile residential custody rate of any state in the nation
for a total of over 56 percent of its youth being detained. By 1999, this statistic had dropped to 51 percent, according to Roche, however, Louisiana retained the number
one spot because its arrest and detention rate is double that of any surrounding state. This changed with the inception of
Louisianas Office of Youth Development (OYD) adopted a new system of working with youth to provide them the tools to live as contributing members of society. By 2001 the
OYD was attributed with reducing the recidivism of OYD youth by 88.6 percent. This meant that these youth do not return to custody as adults.
The same approach was taken with the minority communities in Louisiana, so that the rate at which minorities are arrested in comparison to Caucasians in Louisiana today
was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling to whites.
Minorities do not Commit more Crimes in Louisiana Post Millennium The reduction in minority arrests is reflected in a number of
interrelated statistics. In the 2000 Census, Caucasians account for 63.9 percent of the population and 32.5 percent attributable to Blacks/African Americans, with no discernable difference for the 2003 estimate,
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