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Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, is a national, bipartisan, nonprofit, anti-crime organization. The national organization has a membership of more than 3,000 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, other law enforcement leaders and violence survivors.

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Prince George's County Police Chief Melvin C. High testifies at a Senate briefing on juvenile justice. Chief High urged Congress to increase federal funding for juvenile justice and delinquency programs proven to cut crime.
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Oakland Tribune

Poll links latchkey teens to criminal behavior

Jill Tucker

OAKLAND, CA, June 21, 2006- By their own admission, California's latchkey teens are more likely to engage in criminal activity than their supervised peers, according to a statewide poll released today.

An estimated 1 million kids in California ranging from 12 to 17 have no supervision after school three or more days a week ...

Adult supervision, specially in the form of quality after-school programs, can reduce those rates, said the poll's sponsor, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids ...

Poll results in hand, Fight Crime officials called on legislators to pass a bill that would make it easier to distribute and spend the Proposition 49 funds ...

"These reforms are necessary because serious financial and administrative barriers currently keep many kids from participating in great after-school programs," said state Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch ...



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