Another vital criminal justice fix that Hochul is ignoring.

“A clear weakness in our efforts to combat gun violence is the fact that you have Lift the Age, which still allows 16- and 17-year-olds to own a loaded firearm,” the Albany District Attorney told The Post. David Soares in Criticism. public safety goals outlined by Governor Kathy Hochul in her State of the Union address.

Right off the bat: This is another huge omission when Hochul claims to put public safety first.

Soares, a George Soros-backed progressive, has long noted problems with the 2018 Raise Age Act, which sends most teens charged with felony crimes to family court rather than the adult justice system.

He also criticized Hole and the Legislature for bail waiver legislation and other reforms that Soares believed “normalized” violence. “No meaningful legislative action has been taken regarding bail reform and age increases that have clearly impacted violent crime in our most vulnerable areas,” he thundered after two more fatalities in Albany last fall.

The teen gun violence approach just doesn’t work, Soares told The Post.

Last fall, a mind-blowing NYPD analysis showed that the number of teenagers, shooters and victims in New York City has tripled in the last five years, a deadly trend that coincides with the passage of the age-raising law. The report also notes that teenage recidivism has increased dramatically since 2017.

That is: teenagers are the main driver behind the frightening rise in gun violence in the city. Even worse, this means that more young people are entering a life of crime, which means big problems in the future with a growing criminal class.

Assembly Speaker Carl Histie prides himself on being a “numbers guy” but ignores evidence that the age increase bill has been a disaster for minority teens. Instead, he sticks to his theory that the teenage brain just can’t learn self-restraint, so it’s simply wrong to hold young people accountable – regardless of the consequences for society or for society. them.

So he’s not going to fix the RTA, and Hochul clearly doesn’t want to force the issue. And the number of young victims in minority communities across the state will continue to rise.

It doesn’t matter that the government has tremendous power in budget negotiations to insist about changes in legislation: she is determined to work With The Legislature, no matter how little legislators want to work with her on anything other than increasing spending and taxing.

The worst is yet to come, New York.