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Show DAILY A2 HERALD Saturday, May 31, 2008 Tom sees rise in crime among children Established in 1873 A Lee Newspaper Customer Service Newsroom Ton free FAX 375-510- 80144-254- Todd lewan 3 THE DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. When the police got a tip that Bonner Elementary was being hit for the second time in a week, they rushed three squad cars to the school. As they were cordoning off the Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846030717 ing. But the "rookie" offenses, the ones that start children on the grounds, the burglars emerged dashing out a front door and journey to a life of crime, often across a field. dont get the attention they Norm Kenaiou, a veteran should, says Dan Mears, an associate professor at Florida cop, caught one burglar strugfence. State University's College of gling to hop a chain-lin- k The shock came when he spun Criminology and Criminal JusJOHN RAOUX Associated Press tice. his suspect around and saw Under the supervision of Palmetto Park Boys and Girls Club "There's an two, doe-lik-e population eyes blinking back at him: the eyes of a terriprogram director Lance Sinegal Dillon right, kids run around of kids in our country, particu8- 9- -, in a small area outdoors in Daytona Beach, Flo., on April 1 1. fied, girl. larly those in poverty 10- -, Should he read the child her who get no Miranda rights? Handcuff her? attention from our juvenile jusKenaiou couldnt bring himself not far from the city's schools. tions, namely: What will it take tice system. Even in our most to do that. Instead, as he later to keep our kids out of the juve- progressive states, we wait unInitially, Chitwood ordered described it, "I took her hand nile justice system for some, til a kid has committed a really truancy sweeps. Then he had and, just as a father would lead his officers fingerprint kids bad crime ... to do something." just a pipeline to the prison sysa child, walked her back to my caught skipping school After tem? More aggressive policing? And even then, he adds, "the patrol car." running the prints through the More social services? Harsher response is much more focused That another a FBI's national database he saw sentences? Or something else? on being punitive, rather than two and a his suspicions confirmed Kids Would programs to modify asking, 'Jeez, what can we do were also arrested were behind the spike. the behavior of kids as young to prevent them from getting for the New Year's Day break-i- n It didnt take long for the as 5 help? Or would taxpayers enmeshed in juvenile justice?' was just as troubling. "It dismiss that as just more nanny which would cost us a lot police to link rings of teens to was a real gut punch," Kenaiou burglaries, car thefts, carjackless money than eventually government, especially at a toursays. In this working-clas- s ings and even armed robberies. time of economic slowdown, having to incarcerate them." ist mecca, a party town best "We even had kids taking stowhen local and state governDaytona Beach is no New known for motor racing and len cars out of stolen-ca- r ments are desperate to cut York City, no Chicago; crimilots," spring-brea- k Chitwood says. frivolity, crime spending? nologists don't look here for nahas never been an outsider. But more arrests do not a Chitwood doesn't hesitate tional law enforcement trends. And yet, Daytona suffers from Today, Daytona's crime rate is victory make, as the chief came in answering. "I've got , 910more than double Florida's and to learn. economic and social maladies committing the nation's, having jumped 13 In a city such as Daytona burglary and stealing cars now. that plague many American citwhere poverty lives among What are they going to be doies with high youth-crim- e percent in 2006 alone, accordrates, the weeded lots and sagging ing to the most recent state ing when they're 21?" he says. making it fertile ground for a houses off the palm-linefigures available. "Hey, either you pay when they study on how to divert But what especially unsettles neoned strip, behind the triple-bolte-d go to state or federal prison, or youths from a life of crime. law enforcement here is that doors of tenements in I Seventeen percent of you're going to clean the crap some as young as 7 the shadow of the Speedway juveniles up now. But somewhere along Daytona's families live below are being arrested for a largteen crime and even preteen the line you are going to pay." the poverty line, nearly double er share of the city's felonies. crime have proven to be resilWhen children commit, the national and state averages Mike Chitwood flagged the ient adversaries. or even plan, violent crimes, of 9 percent. Median household s Here and in other cities, America takes notice. problem two years ago, soon income, $25,439, is not after taking over as Daytona's Think about the attention of the national average chronically high juvenile crime rates those ranging above of $41,994, according to U.S. police chief. It wasn't just that paid in April to a school in the national average of kids Census data. poorer neighborhoods were Waycross, Ga., where a group under 15 committing 5 percent of I The percentage of single-parebeing pounded by burglaries, allegedly or that cars were vanishing of violent crimes, 7 percent hatched a plot to knock out, households in Daytona from dealership lots, or even of robberies and 9 percent of handcuff and stab their teacher Beach is higher than that of that assaults and sex offenses households. Nationwith a steak knife. . burglaries fray the patience were up. of judges and politicians and Recall the outcry a decade ally, there are three times as The crimes were happenor so ago, when a series of hor- many households as pop up on newspaper front and pages. 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An Iraqi man shouts slogans during a protest in Kufa, 100 miles "We denounce the governsouth of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday. ment's intentions to sign a long-teragreement with the occuweeks of fighting. pying forces," Asaad progress" although other Iraqi A militant Sunni clerical a sheik loyal to officials acknowledged there cleric Muqtada said were many unresolved issues, group, the Association of Muslim Scholars, denounced the during a sermon in Kuf a. including how many Americans "Our army will be under would remain and what they "ring of secrecy" surrounding their control in this agreement, the talks and said the proposed would do. American soldiers deal would pave the way for and this will lead to them havnow enjoy full immunity from ing permanent bases in Iraq." "military, economic and cultural the Iraqi legal system. President Bush and Prime domination" by the Americans. The officials spoke on condiMinister Nouri On Thursday, the head of the tion of anonymity because they signed a statement last December on were not supposed to talk about country's biggest mainstream relaShiite party, Abdul-Azi- z the future of the negotiations. said some unspecified Rallies against the security tions, saying they planned to finalize a new security agreedeal occurred as the U.S. milpoints under negotiation "vioin time for ment by July 31 late Iraq's national sovereignitary was seeking to contain the ty," adding that a "national con- public relations damage caused Iraq's parliament to approve the deal before a UN. mandate sensus" was emerging against by reports that an American the proposed agreement. Marine handed out coins proexpires at the end of the year. is U.S. and Iraqi officials began main moting Christianity to Sunni rival in the majority Shiite com- Muslims in the former insurnegotiations in March on a seblueprint for the long-termunity and maintains close ties gent stronghold of Fallujah. Sunni officials and residents curity agreement and a second to the country's main Shiite said a Marine distributed about deal, to establish the legal basis cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Aides to the powerful for U.S. troops to remain in the 10 coins at a checkpoint controlcountry after the U.N. mandate ayatollah say he also has reserling access to the city, the scene vations about the deaL runs out. of one of the fiercest battles of Some congressional DemoRallies in Baghdad and sevthe war. crats are also insisting that eral other Iraqi cities followed One side asked: "Where will Congress should authorize any you spend eternity?" Friday prayer services and were the first in wake of a call agreement that would obligate The other contained a verse for weekly protests the United States to defend from the New Testament: "For by God so loved the world, that Iraq. against the deal, even though Before the Friday protests, few details of the talks have he gave his only begotten Son, office in Baghdad isbeen released. that whosoever believeth in him Most of the protesters apsued a statement branding the should not perish, but have evnegotiations as "a project of peared to be followers of erlasting life. John 3:16." humiliation" aimed at turning the hardline Shiite cleric Mohammed Hassan Abdullah and militia leader whose Mahdi Iraq "into a small stooge of the said he witnessed the coins beUnited States." 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