The Haywood Burns Institute has just released its second major report on the systemic problems that lead to DMC,“The Keeper and the Kept” . One of the great challenges facing our systems is that as resources are shrinking, prevention and early intervention efforts being substantially reduced if not eliminated completely, and our systems “re-trenching”, it is often those kids already most at risk that may bear the brunt of these reductions – in particular minority youth who will become subject to gerater, not less, involvement in the juvenile justice system. Now, more than ever, individuals in the system need to commit to ensuring that reductions don’t make an existing problem even worse.