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Bill would gather data on juvenile offenders
TOPEKA -- African-American youth are arrested more frequently than their white peers in Sedgwick County, and Rep. Melody Miller, D-Wichita, thinks that the trend exists in many Kansas counties. But no state law requires counties to address the problem.
That's why Miller has asked the House Committee on State and Federal Affairs to introduce a bill that would require Kansas counties to gather data that show the racial breakdown of youth who are arrested and what happens to them in the court system.
Miller's proposal would require counties to reduce the disproportionate number of minority youth arrested and adjudicated.
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Is Topeka where we send the crazy people? I thought it was Larned.
"....reduce the disproportionate number of minority youth arrested..."
I guess the onliest way to do that is to write some exemptions into criminal law that excludes minorities from prosecution for crimes committed.....