More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: Insidious FBI

The recent arrests of two 6-year-old students in Orlando, which prompted outrage and the firing of the officer who restrained one child's hands with flex cuffs, mirrors a persistent problem confronting law enforcement and schools with thousands of children arrested annually and treated like "mini-adults," experts said.
Stunning annual crime statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that between 2013 and 2018 (the most recent year for which complete data is available), at least 30,467 children under the age of 10 were arrested in the United States. And the numbers skyrocket for children between the ages of 10 to 12 with 266,321 arrested during the same six-year time span, according to the data.

More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: Insidious FBI ArrestsOfChildrenUnder10_v04_DP_hpEmbed_9x10_608

More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: Insidious FBI ArrestsOfChildrenUnder10_v04_DP_hpEmbed_9x10_608

Rules about the age children can be arrested vary around the world. In England and Wales, for instance, the age of criminal responsibility is 10, with alternative arrangements for those under 10. In Scotland, it is 8.
In the United States, 34 states have no minimum age for delinquency (according to the most recent data), while most of the rest have set the age at 10, according to government data. The federal system prefers to defer to the state delinquency system for minors, according to the Congressional Research Service, although the federal tradition, [url=http://www.ncjj.org/pdf/JJGPS StateScan/JJGPS_U.S._age_boundaries_of_delinquency_2016.pdf]is reported to be seven.[/url]
And 24 states have no minimum age to transfer juvenile cases to adult criminal court according to the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
While the rate of arrests of juveniles 10 to 17 has been on a steady decline in the U.S. since hitting a peak in the mid-1990s and the arrests of those 12 and under represents a mere fraction of the total made annually in the U.S. (more than 7.8 million in 2018 alone).
While the FBI's latest crime report released on Monday shows the numbers of children arrested under the age of 10 have continue to gradually declining in the past five years from a high in 2014 of 6,458 to 3,501 in 2018, experts say it is still too many.
"This is ridiculous. If we are going to treat children like this, we better think very clearly what the ramifications are, especially if we are so inclined to stop the violence," said Lisa Thurau, founder and executive director of Strategies for Youth, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, nonprofit that trains law enforcement agencies in how to handle young children. "This is producing it and it's also attenuating children's connection to school."
An area of particular concern with juvenile arrests are those in school -- especially how discipline affects those of different races and how officers are trained to deal with children.

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More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: Insidious FBI

More than 30,000 children under age 10 have been arrested in the US since 2013: Insidious FBI

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