How did NY leaders let gangbangers’ Bronx violence go on for so long?

Good news: Law enforcement conscionable did a high-profile crackdown connected the 800 YGz gang, a k a “Young Gunnaz.”

Bad news: It took years aft the baby-faced unit had “turned the West Farms vicinity into a shooting gallery,” successful the words of Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.

Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch joined Clark connected Thursday to denote charges against 20 members of the gang, fractional of whom were teens erstwhile progressive successful astatine slightest 14 shootings since 2023.

There’s plentifulness of caught-on-tape evidence, due to the fact that these sickos liked to occurrence astatine rival gangbangers successful nationalist spaces with nary respect to the lives of the innocents caught successful the middle.

During 1 specified shootout connected April 1, 2023, 800 YGz members fired crossed a middle-school playground, forcing terrified children to fly for their lives.

Notice: That’s two years ago; couldn’t Clark person had her property league announcing charges then?

By the way, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny indicates 800 YGz has 38 full members, which implies 18 of these thugs are inactive stalking the streets.

They’re presumably continuing the gang’s concern of dealing drugs, including ace cocaine; you person to wonderment if that means much weapon battles arsenic different gangs determination connected the “young gunnaz” turf.

Meanwhile, progressives connected the City Council are pushing to shut down the NYPD’s pack database (which lists 15 “Young Gunnaz”) that helps the cops get these menaces disconnected the streets, claiming it’s “racial profiling” due to the fact that those successful it are chiefly achromatic and Hispanic.

They should look astatine the chilling screenshots from the April 1 shooting — the children fleeing successful panic arsenic bullets whiz past are each achromatic and Hispanic, too: Is it “racial justice” to unit them to fearfulness for their lives each clip they measurement retired their doors?

Meanwhile, progressives successful the Legislature offer lone watered-down compromise to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s humble projected fixes to the “discovery” rules that outpouring galore perps connected utter technicalities.

And she isn’t adjacent asking for changes to the no-bail laws, nor to Raise the Age, which removed consequences for adjacent the astir superior teen offenders and has sparked large pack recruitment of under-18s.

Our lawmakers are engaged protecting their “anti-carceral” bona fides erstwhile our kids conscionable privation they could reliably play extracurricular without getting changeable at.