Hooray for Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton and – Latest News
How about that: Trump-appointed Southern District US Attorney Jay Clayton is standing up for public-housing tenants.
His prime targets embody gun violence, drug and intercourse trafficking, transnational gangs and public corruption — with a specific emphasis on defending New Yorkers in violence-plagued public housing.
“We charge [suspects] federally if we can because there’s a greater likelihood of detention,” Clayton defined on WABC.
This remembers the feds’ strategy during the Nineties “crack wars,” tackling the drug-gang gunmen who terrorized poor minority neighborhoods: It helped drive down shootings and murders all throughout town.
Crucially, the NYPD and native DAs labored with their federal companions to make sure that the worst of the worst obtained arrested, tried and convicted in federal courtroom beneath harsher sentencing pointers.
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Clayton (whose NYC jurisdiction is restricted to Manhattan and The Bronx) understands that New Yorkers “want gun-toting criminals off our street.”
Let’s hope Eastern District US Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. brings the identical hard-nosed strategy to Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
Clayton’s current indictment of 19 drug sellers in and round Washington Square Park offers hope to South Bronx residents and shopkeepers who’ve long complained in regards to the open-air drug market besetting The Hub at Third Avenue and 149th Street.
If Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s White House love-in with President Donald Trump is to repay for probably the most weak New Yorkers, it should embody pleasant cooperation with Clayton and his group.
We hope to listen to the new mayor announce that there’s nothing progressive about letting the gangs run the tasks.
