As DA, Soares has seen firsthand the role that 2017's Raise the Age law, which significantly scaled back punishments for 16- and 17-year-old criminal offenders, played in worsening crime.
Legislators have responded to his alarm with vitriol. Agency leaders, journalists, and reform advocates have denounced him for highlighting the concentration of violence in black communities and the role of misguided laws in enabling it.
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