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Bronx DA’s charges against ‘gang members’ expose the disturbing trend of NY’s Raise the Age law

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Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark this week charged 19 reputed gang members with a range of criminal charges, including conspiracy, attempted murder, assault and weapons-related crimes.

And every single one of these thugs, save the leader, was a minor.

Is there more compelling evidence that New York’s Raise the Age law is a horrific failure?

The charges follow a 13-month long investigation into the “McKillville” gang’s turf war with rivals, which featured all manner of shootings, conspiracies, assaults — and pure terror for the community.

Prosecutors say the minors were 14- to 17-year-old boys who older men “urged” to “elevate themselves” by “committing........

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