Age of Criminal Liability

This is a New York story, but it goes back to things we've been talking about for nearly twenty years of blogging and nearly thirty years of policing:

• New York State was inspired to raise the age for a person to be criminally liable under the law to age 18 back in 2018. It’s all the rage in progressive jurisdictions to treat violent, juvenile offenders like Father Flanagan’s kids (“There’s no such thing as a bad boy”).

  “The purpose of the Raise the Age law,” according to a juvenile justice advocacy website, “was to ensure that more youth would benefit from the Family Court’s rehabilitative focus and sealed records policies. The law also barred all minors from adult correctional settings, with few exceptions.”

  More than “a few,” says Albany District Attorney David Soares. He’s been calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature to repeal the “Raise the Age” law because of the chaos and mayhem it has caused.

Amazing how all these blue-state shitholes are suddenly worried about looking soft on crime right around election season....like the lessons of the Clinton years are remembered when it serves an electoral purpose.