Do Black victims matter?
Fox News
Do Black victims matter? So-called criminal-justice reform takes a horrifying toll on Black victims. New York Democrats are afraid to face the awful truth.
Even worse, by 2021, the number of murdered Black kids in NYC nearly quadrupled, with 42 victims that year, or 80%, being Black (including Black Hispanic). That’s 25 more Black youths killed than in 2017. Hannah E. Meyers is director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute.
Last year, 78 more teens were shot than had been five years prior. Even worse, by 2021, the number of murdered Black kids in NYC nearly quadrupled, with 42 victims that year, or 80%, being Black (including Black Hispanic). That’s 25 more Black youths killed than in 2017.
Violent victimization in New York City is perennially a Black problem, and this disparity has only increased since the state’s recent criminal justice reforms unleashed the most persistently violent on the most persistently vulnerable. The very tiny slice of the community responsible for this violence doesn’t have to worry much, if at all, about: being detained (thanks to the 2020 bail reform); getting prosecuted (the 2020 discovery reform); having parole revoked, even for criminal violations (the 2021 Less Is More Act); or, for youthful offenders, facing judges who will send them to criminal court’s adolescent sections or who will even be aware that they have been arrested before (the 2017 Raise the Age legislation).