The juvenile justice system in New York is broken and failing thanks to Raise the Age — a 2018 law that sends most teen criminal defendants to Family Court and doesn’t punish 16- and 17-year-olds w…
The average age at which junior thugs pick up an illegal gun has dropped from 16 or 17 to just 12 or 13, writes The Post Editorial Board.The juvenile justice system in New York is broken and failing thanks to Raise the Age — a 2018 law that sends most teen criminal defendants to Family Court and“We already have 15 juveniles murdered this year by a gun. I’m talking about being murdered by a gunshot.
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The average age at which junior thugs pick up an illegal gun has dropped from 16 or 17 to just 12 or 13 — and the number of adolescent inmates booked on murder charges jumped from seven in April 2018 to more than 230 in May 2023. And as juvenile shooters have killed 15 other teens, the city’s lawmakers have yet to respond to a crisis slamming mainly the black and Hispanic communities.
Heastie, Stewart-Cousins and their colleagues refuse to accept that teen thugs who commit serious felonies and carry guns need to face serious consequences.
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