How about that: Trump-appointed Southern District US Lawyer Jay Clayton is standing up for public-housing tenants.
His prime targets embrace 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 cost [suspects] federally if we will as a result of there’s a better probability of detention,” Clayton defined on WABC.
This recollects the feds’ method in the course of the Nineteen 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 received arrested, tried and convicted in federal court docket below harsher sentencing tips.
Clayton (whose NYC jurisdiction is restricted to Manhattan and The Bronx) understands that New Yorkers “need gun-toting criminals off our road.”
Let’s hope Jap District US Lawyer Joseph Nocella Jr. brings the identical hard-nosed method to Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
Clayton’s current indictment of 19 drug sellers in and round Washington Sq. Park offers hope to South Bronx residents and shopkeepers who’ve lengthy complained concerning the open-air drug market besetting The Hub at Third Avenue and 149th Avenue.
If Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s White Home love-in with President Donald Trump is to repay for essentially the most susceptible New Yorkers, it should embrace pleasant cooperation with Clayton and his workforce.
We hope to listen to the brand new mayor announce that there’s nothing progressive about letting the gangs run the tasks.
