Yet another avoidable ACS tragedy takes an innocent child

The tragic case involving Lisa Cotton and her two children certainly warranted closer supervision by the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, despite lefty wackos wanting less monitoring because, you know: It’s racist.That’s right: Lawyers at Legal Services NYC actually claim ACS investigations “overpolice” low-income black and Hispanic New Yorkers, causing them to be denied work or lose their jobs.Lisa Cotton’s involvement with ACS isn’t fully clear, though law enforcement sources told The Post that Cotton had a troubled history — including mental illness — and had an open case for child neglect.Yet somehow, the agency “didn’t seem to feel a sense of urgency about kids in possible danger,” as Naomi Schaefer Riley thundered in The Post.The day after an attempted visit by ACS workers, Cotton and her 8-year-old disabled son, Nazir, were found dead with 4-year-old Promise Cotton alive amid their corpses.The family’s “history should have told both ACS and the NYPD that they should urgently investigate neighbors’ calls — because Cotton’s kids were at imminent risk,” Schaefer Riley added.She couldn’t be more right.It’s beyond perverse to accuse ACS of racism, given that its workers are predominately black and Hispanic women.Yet progressive groups like the NYCLU, Bronx Legal Services and the NYS Bar Association want us to believe that seeking to protect and safeguard young black and Hispanic lives is wrong, predatory and racist.A 2022 Bar Association report opposed what it called “punitive child removal” proceedings, arguing that the government shouldn’t be “punishing children for the poverty of their families.”The group’s wokesters refuse to acknowledge that protecting vulnerable children, regardless of race and ethnicity, requires closer monitoring of troubled parents, such as Lisa Cotton.Providing services and checkups is not racist.Mayor Adams hit the nail on the head Tuesday, saying that “when you rem...