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Staten Island DA outlines youth initiatives and expresses concerns about violence
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Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon discusses Staten Island's youth initiatives and expresses serious concerns about youth violence in the borough and across the city.
- McMahon mentions having an education coordinator who visits schools
- Staten Island DA's office has a youth advisory committee
- He highlights recent incidents of severe youth violence in Staten Island
- McMahon expresses concern about the lack of meaningful outcomes after youth contact with the criminal justice system
- He criticizes the handling of Raise the Age cases in family court and the lack of promised resources
Michael McMahon
6:52:11
If I could just kind of wrap it up and everything that my colleagues have said, we've you know, in Staten Island as well, we're doing a lot of these things.
6:52:21
We have I have an education coordinator who goes into the schools.
6:52:24
We have a youth advisory committee.
6:52:26
We're meeting with the youth where they are.
6:52:28
But to be honest with you, councilwoman, the kids are not alright.
6:52:32
We've even in Staten Island I say it was even Staten Island because our crime rates are normally lower, but I've had a 15 year old slain in a in a schoolyard by gunfire.
6:52:41
I had a 15 year old stabbed by a 14 year old on a bus coming home from school to stab to death.
6:52:47
So we this is this goes on and it's raging across our city.
6:52:51
And for me, the the what's missing is meaningful outcomes after people have contact with the criminal justice system.
6:53:00
Because what's happening with a lot of the raise the age cases, as you know, they go to family court.
6:53:05
They're dealt with by the corporation counsel.
6:53:07
They are not the resources that are supposed to be there.
6:53:10
The state legislature never delivered on its $800,000,000 promise for resources to go with that legislation when they passed it.
Althea Stevens
6:53:18
That's good to know.
6:53:19
I didn't know that.