Back on topic - regarding New York efforts to embrace the Missouri Model.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I agree that the data that Missouri has is impressive, and that they have developed what an ideal juvenile justice system should look like.
The one major change that they have made that should be a no-brainer at this stage in history, is that large training schools/boot camps hundreds of miles away from home are ineffective and lead to bad outcomes.
I have questions about the data though. It's not clear what the 11% statistic is referring to. I've been trying to do research on it, and haven't been able to come up with the data source. My understandng is that the figure represents the number of youth who come into the juvenile justice system who re-enter the juvenile justice system within a year. The 11% I think includes every youth, those who don't receive services, those who end up in day treatment, those who end up in non-secure facilities, and those who end up in secure facilities. The system is effective, not necessarily the programs. And what the system seems to be particularly effective at, is sequestering and screening youth. Diverting youth with mental health conditions to psychiatric residential treatment centers, and only sending youth with serious conduct disorder issues to their facilities. Not that this is a bad thing, but it would be interesting to look at the entirety of the Missouri residential system of care to see how effective the whole system is on measures other than just short-term recidivism, before putting Missouri on a pedestal, which I am guilty of anyone as doing.
Regardless of the manipulation of the numbers, Missouri's numbers are better than New York's by any measure.