Teen takeovers
Large gatherings of teenagers in public places, often organized on social media, that sometimes end in fights, vandalism, or shootings.
Outline. The research for this insight is not written yet.
How many teenagers are arrested, and for what?
Arrests of people under 18, by offense and age, as police agencies report them to the FBI.
No data yet
When the sources are loaded, this will show (answers at: state, national):
- Juvenile arrests by offense and age.
- Arrests for curfew, loitering, and disorderly conduct, where police record them.
What the records can't answer
- Count takeovers themselves. No police or court system has a takeover category; officers record the underlying offenses.
- Tie an arrest to a specific event. That lives in local police statements and news, which we are not compiling yet.
How it is recorded
- 90BCurfew, loitering, and vagrancy violations
- 90CDisorderly conduct
- 13BSimple assault
- 290Destruction, damage, or vandalism of property
FBI NIBRS offense codes. The same act may carry a different name in state law and court records.
Where the records are
- OJJDP Statistical Briefing BookNational
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention · Arrests, Courts, Prisons, Victimization · html, csv · annual
Juvenile arrests, court cases and residential placement (CJRP/EZACJRP) national/state tables.
- FBI Crime Data ExplorerNational
FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) · Incidents, Arrests, Hate crime, Use of force, Other · html, csv · annual
Official front door to UCR/NIBRS data for ~19k agencies; agency participation varies by year, especially post-2021 NIBRS transition.
Jacob Kaplan (openICPSR) · Arrests · csv, sas-spss-stata, other · annual
Agency-level arrests 1974-present; companion openICPSR projects cover SHR, LEOKA, hate crime and NIBRS.