Behold the fruits of Raise the Age: A generation of kids who become career criminals before they can even vote. <\/p>\n
The latest case is Julian Turner, 17,<\/a> a gangbanger and drill rapper who\u2019s racked up 20 arrests in his short life<\/a>, thanks to criminal-justice \u201creforms\u201d that invited him to keep reoffending.<\/p>\n His lawbreaking began at just 10, with an arrest for threatening two other kids with a fake gun; the next year, he escalated to actual violence, allegedly slicing a 14-year-old\u2019s ear open with a boxcutter; two months after that, he allegedly stabbed a 71-year-old woman in the hand.<\/p>\n At 14, with 18 arrests under his (undersized) belt<\/a>, he was busted for attempted murder for allegedly shooting a rival gang member in the leg from the back of a scooter.<\/p>\n In a sane world, that would have earned Turner a lengthy stay behind bars \u2014 for the good of others and the teen himself, who was clearly digging himself deeper into a life of crime. <\/p>\n But because of Raise the Age<\/a>, which progressives argue is supposed to keep kids out of jail and so reduce their interactions with the criminal justice system, Turner was free on Sept. 2 to score another arrest for holding a man up at gunpoint.<\/p>\n And still free on Oct. 10, he was busted again with a loaded gun with a defaced serial number at Penn Station.<\/p>\n Violence committed by teens and against teens has skyrocketed since Raise the Age took effect<\/a> in 2019 \u2014 96% more youngsters under 18 were shot so far this year than in the same period in 2018; the number of teen shooters has leapt 148%, even as overall shootings fell<\/p>\n