In an interview by Officer Corey Baker, of the Peel Police Department, information was received giving his opinion on the youth justice system and his experience working in the field. Officer Baker has worked for the Peel Police Department for 13 years and has tremendous amounts of experience in his work. Although he has never really dealt with juveniles on a more serious relationship he has seen the juveniles in action. His remark on the effectiveness of the program was, "I feel that over the years juveniles have become more involved with criminal actions. Sometimes being their first offense and seeing their punishment causes them to withdraw from their criminal actions, but to others you see them in the station on a regular basis. You see the same juveniles files, and sometimes it makes you second guess if what the
             system is doing is working. But for the most part others may commit one offense and then you will never hear of them again. And for those that have only committed one offense it usually is for curfew, or property damage such as toilet papering, or minor offenses such as those. The kids usually don't think they can get in trouble for those actions, but when they find out they did, then for the most part they are scared or their parents give them the most punishment of all." It tends to be that the kids that get involved with criminal actions more than once tend to stay in trouble with the law.
             Although there needs to be something done with those juveniles, but what's stopping children who commit just one crime and are deterred from criminal activity after that. Is it their parents, their peers, or just in the minds of these juveniles? Officer Baker responds, "For the most part I feel that the parents have a lot of influence on the actions of their children. Broken families tend to allow their children to get involved with criminal actions more frequently or at an earlier age...