The new day was just 40 minutes old when cops were called to a shooting. It was the end for Malachi Elijah Bainbridge, 19. Dead at the scene.
, the NYPD is “grappling with a deficient juvenile criminal justice system that treats young offenders with kid gloves — even as the city faces a twofold jump in the number of underage accused killers.”Article content
“We’ve been able to take 16- and 17-year-olds in Raise the Age and not criminalize it by doing juvenile reports,” outgoing NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, in charge of the department’s youth division, told The Post. NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell was blunter: “[It is] a system that is deficient in meaningful intervention for our youth.”
Raise the Age hiked the age for a teen to face adult charges to 18 from the previous 16- and 17-year-old threshold. Records are sealed, sentences are lighter and more citizens are put in peril.
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