Violent juveniles are ‘biggest local crime issue,’ Orleans Parish DA says
NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, on Tuesday, identified violent juvenile offenders as New Orleans’ biggest local crime issue for 2019. Cannizzaro noted that the city’s 735 new juvenile felony cases in 2018 nearly exceeded the totals of 2016 and 2017 combined (776). The million-dollar question is: Why? What caused the numbers…