After yet another epic weekend of teen gun crime in Albany, local Democrats are implicitly admitting that longtime District Attorney David Soares was right after all — a year after the party machine ousted him for refusing to shut up about how state “reforms” fuel the violence.
Amid generally slamming overbroad criminal-justice changes for New York’s rising crime, Soares relentlessly fingered the Raise the Age law for teaching teens all the wrong lessons — angering the Legislature’s leaders enough that they got the Albany party to deny him the party line in last year’s election.
The 2017 Raise the Age law upped the age of criminal responsibility to 18 — mandating that nearly all 16- and 17-year-olds, even those charged with violent offenses or caught with loaded guns, go to Family Court and so walk right out with barely a slap on the wrist.
Now, after teen shootings left