Evette Jeffrey, 16, with her entire future for her, just drove her scooter outside of a Bronx school when agents believe a 14-year-old boy- 14! – shot her death.
Get two more tragedies to the curse of ‘reforming criminal justice’.
The police say it started with a gang-related Melee Monday afternoon.
From video it seems that the boy started to shoot after he was beaten; One bullet hit Evette, a classic innocent bystander.
But how would a 14-year-old get a gun?
And where would he get the idea that the right answer to a blow is to turn off a firearm and let go?
Parents, as mayor Eric Adams suggested, have the duty to be vigilant about the residence and activities of their children; He is right to insist on checking the backpacks and bedrooms of children. And of course adults have to send their children away from violence and violent crowds.
But as we have often pointed out, a large part of the debt also lies with the Criminal Justice System of New York, which now sends a shocking signal that criminals, especially children, have to do with scarce consequences for criminal actions.
Indeed, the increase in the age law under signing by then-gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2017 and supported by NU-GOV. Kathy Hochul – Protected teenagers under the age of 18 (up to 16) against accusations of adult criminal courts for all except the most serious crimes.
That encouraged more than 18 gangbangers to use younger children as mules to wear their weapons, rightly and thought they would escape serious consequences if they are caught.
And the 2022 ‘Increase the Lower The Age law “made it impossible to charge perpetrators from 7 to 11 years as ‘youth delinquents’.
Meanwhile, Cashless Burving and other criminal ‘reforms’, plus soft-on-crime public prosecutors and judges, reinforced the ‘everything’ climate climate of New York.
Yes, the new NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch has in six months Finally Started making a dent in violent crime, with murders with 34% and shoot 23% for the first three months of the year.
But there is still too much violence.
And now an innocent young girl has lost her life.
Her family and friends have been destroyed.
“They took her away from us. They took her away from me,” Evette’s grandmother sobbed.
Legislers who still support ‘reforms’ – Assembly speaker Carl Heastie, Senate majority leader Andrew Stewart Cousins, Hochul – Even Care?
