Mamdani looks to put more children in danger at ACS as lefties want to abolish much-needed agency

If Mayor Zohran Mamdani taps an “abolitionist” to run the Administration for Children’s Services, he’s courting a higher death toll than the 19 lost amid his heartless frozen-homeless policy.The departure of (terrible) ACS chief Jess Dannhauser opens the way for Mamdani to please the far left by hiring someone even worse: a chief who wants to effectively abolish the agency, warns Naomi Schaefer Riley in The Post.Dannhauser’s “leadership” saw multiple children die of abuse; most recently, including Maliek Williams, 2, brutally beaten to death by his father, Davon Morrison, while living in a city shelter, as well as the twin boys, 14, one with autism, imprisoned and starved by a deranged mother who wanted them to stay babies forever.Behind such tragedies is the left’s push for less monitoring of and intervention with troubled families because “it’s racist”; claptrap that Gov.

Kathy Hochul nonetheless fed by signing a new law that bans child-welfare investigations on the basis of anonymous tips.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Mamdani co-sponsored that legislation, so he seems primed to appease the lefties who want to abolish ACS as a matter of “equity” — child safety be damned — because they claim ACS investigations “overpolice” black and Hispanic New Yorkers.In fact, that enforcement is about protecting helpless black and Hispanic children.The mayor has plenty of cred with the left; if he has any conscience, he’ll use some of it to shut down the ACS-abolition lunatics....