The front page of yesterday’s D.C. Examiner was as loud as it was shocking: “Violent crimes by teens soar in D.C.: Homicide, rape, assault up 10 percent.” Agggh! You afraid yet? If not, maybe you should be — summer break is but a few weeks away, meaning that we’re in for a violent, bloody few months, right? Well, maybe not.

More details are coming to light in the violent escape of a teenager from New Beginnings Youth Correctional Facility in Laurel on Sunday night — and, as expected, the incident is causing many to question the overall efficacy of the facility and the capability of the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to manage it.