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REPORTER: WE CAN CONFIRM THAT
RYAN DAVIS IS NO STRANGER TO THE
COPS AT HEADQUARTERS.
DAYS BEFORE HE WAS CHARGED WITH
GOING ON A CRI SPREE, WE NOW
KNOW THAT HE WAS ARRESTED AND
CHARGED WITH A CRIME, BUT WAS
ALLOWED TO GO FREE.
POLICE WERE LOOKING FOR
TEENAGERS RESPONSIBLE FOR
CARJACKINGS ACROSS THE CITY, THE
15-YEAR-OLD RYAN DAVIS WAS IN
THIS VEHICLE THE PURSUIT.
-- BEING PURSUED.
WITHIN DAYS, AND RYAN DAVIS WAS
BEHIND BARS, TURNED IN BY HIS
MOTHER.
>> A LOT OF JUVENILES ARE
CREATING -- COMMITTING CRIMES ON
BECAUSE THERE ARE NO
CONSEQUENCES AND THEY HAVE NO
FEAR OF THE LAW.
REPORTER: CHIEF MICHAEL HARRISON
POINT.
WAS ALLEGEDLY USING A HANDGUN TO
ROB PEOPLE AND STEAL CARS, HE
WAS HERE LOCKED UP AT THE YOUTH
STUDY CENTER, OF JUVENILE JAIL.
RECORDS OBTAINED BY WDSU NEWS
SHOW THAT DAVIS WAS PICKED UP
LAST YEAR, WHEN HE W
14-YEARS-OLD AND CHARGED WITH,
OF ALL CRIMES, CARJACKING, AND
RESISTING AN OFFICER.
ON MAY 4 OF THIS YEAR, DAVIS WAS
IN JUVENILE COUR
HE WAS RELEASED, CREDITED WITH
TIME SERVED AND WALKED OUT OF
THE JUVENILE JUDGE PREVENTED
DAVIS FROM BEING CHARGED AS AN
ADULT AND FACING SERIOUS JAIL
TIME, DUE TO HIS AGE.
BUT WITHIN DAYS OF GETTING OUT
OF JAIL, COPS SAYS HE WAS DOING
IT AGAIN
>> ABSOLUTELY, THERE WERE NO
CONSEQUENCES FOR HIS ACTIVITY.
REPORTER
WEARING A MASK AND STICKING A
GUN IN PEOPLE'S FACES.
SO IT OUTRAGES ME THAT
BUT THEY ARE NOT.
INSTEAD, THEY ARE COMMITTING
CRIMES, INSTEAD OF BEING HELD
ALREADY COMMITTED.
MANY OFFENDERS THAT WE SEE IN
THE CRIMINAL COURT ARE YOUNGER
AND YOUNGER TODAY, DAN THEY WERE
ABOUT 15 HAD BEEN 20 YEARS AGO.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY TELL US THAT
DESPITE THE AG OF
LIKELY THEY WILL BE CHARGING
AND WE REACHED OUT TO THE MOTHER