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WASHINGTON - There is an alarming number of teenagers and even pre-teens being arrested for robbery in the District. Since October, D.C. police say officers have charged 69 juveniles with the crime – with three of them as young as 12 years old.

In addition, the number of juveniles charged with a crime is up significantly over the last year.

We started noticing this trend when D.C. police began listing the ages of the people they were arresting for robbery. It is not something the department had previously done.

We began to count the number of young teenagers between 12 to 17 years old who are being charged with robbery, and according to the D.C. Attorney General, robbery arrests are up 8 percent from 2015 to 2016.

Robberies in the District of Columbia have been a major crime concern for years. So much so, a year ago, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced police would form of a task force that would do nothing but investigate and prosecute the people stealing property in what are often violent assaults.

But what has become clear in recent months is that a large number of these robberies are being committed by juveniles.

"I think what is going on unfortunately is that increasingly, a lot of young people frankly are not engaged in productive activity, and where they are idle, they are prone to get together and make bad decisions,” said Karl Racine, Attorney General for the District of Columbia.

Since October, these are the teenagers between 12 and 17 years old arrested for robbery:

- 12 years old – 3
- 13 years old – 6
- 14 years old – 7
- 15 years old – 14
- 16 years old – 28
- 17 years old – 11

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