What? While it's true that there is a small minority of kids in youth protection because of involvement with the police, at least 90% of them are there because

What? While it's true that there is a small minority of kids in youth protection because of involvement with the police, at least 90% of them are there because social workers decided, mostly against their and their parent's wishes, that they needed help and couldn't be allowed to be free to refuse that help. And of course 0% of kids in youth protection facilities are convicted of a crime (they would be somewhere else if that were the case). Youth protection services don't "take up slack for the police" at all ...