In October, New York City was horrified when 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin died hours after being found malnourished and suffering from hypothermia, with reported burns on his skin, in his family’s Harlem apartment.
It was just the latest in a much-too-long line of kids who died despite their guardians having been investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services.
Here, an anonymous child protective specialist at ACS tells policing and public-safety expert Hannah E. Meyers how the organization’s CARES program puts kids at risk in the name of promoting social justice by fighting racial disparity:
I joined New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services as a child protective specialist to protect vulnerable children. Many children require such protection, and my caseload at any given time often exceeds 10 cases involving over 20 children.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
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