Downplaying youth crime at a time complaints are rising is a bad strategy for Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services

Two months after Baltimore’s worst mass shooting occurred, injuring 28 people and killing two at the Brooklyn Homes, with most of the victims teenagers — and for which four teenagers have so far been criminally charged — the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services released a much-anticipated “research brief” observing, among other things, that public concerns about juvenile crime are greatly overstated.