The Situation: The Christmas Day stabbings of two teenage vacationers at Grand Central Terminal.
Steven Hutcherson, the person arrested for stabbing two teen women in Grand Central this week, has a protracted historical past with psychological sickness — as do a big share of incarcerated folks (“Time Bomb,” Dec. 28).
Many with psychological sickness stay with power circumstances that require steady medicine. Such medication typically have disagreeable unwanted effects. So sufferers understandably don’t need to take them and, except held accountable, typically cease altogether.
Earlier than the Nineteen Seventies, these liable to violence had been confined to psychological services the place they had been saved on medicine. Later, advocates for freedom for the mentally ailing demanded these establishments be closed and that psychological hospitals get replaced by neighborhood care.
The result’s earlier than us all: Many are saved in prisons fairly than psychological establishments, whereas others stay on the road, often unmedicated. Judges have nowhere to ship them, besides jail or again to the road.
We have to reopen psychological services and monitor them to make sure sufferers obtain applicable care.
Peter C. Welch
Carmel
Decide Matthew Grieco should be faraway from his put up. It’s unconscionable that this inept bureaucrat would launch the Grand Central stabber after the district lawyer known as for his remand. There aren’t any checks or balances in New York authorities.
Within the Batman universe, Gotham allowed the Joker to thrive. The lunatic within the purple swimsuit was par for the course. Impotent governors like Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, in addition to mayors like Invoice de Blasio and Eric Adams, created this mess and proceed to let it fester.
Somebody, please fireplace up the bat sign. Perhaps there’s one other Bloomberg ready within the wings who can lastly drain this swamp.
Peter Goldring
Freehold, NJ
After greater than 30 years within the legislation, Grieco doesn’t acknowledge psychological sickness when he sees it. This decide is the epitome of progressive liberal justice. Hutcherson must be locked up and handled and Grieco wants to seek out one other line of labor.
Robert Mangi
Westbury
Eating at Grand Central really is a horror. We now have folks strolling round after 17 prior arrests — no matter occurred to “three strikes and also you’re out”?
The reply, after all, is that the town voted liberal socialists into workplace, politicians who appear to care extra about criminals than residents.
Years in the past we had psychological establishments, however politicians did away with these services. Now the severely mentally ailing stroll amongst us. I’m a local New Yorker, however sadly, I now not need to go into the town of my beginning. It’s really unhappy how our society has modified as a result of we voted the incorrect folks into workplace.
So what’s the resolution? We should confine violent, mentally ailing people to establishments or prisons.
Philip Vallone
Ossining
Why was the Grand Central stabber on the streets after 17 prior arrests? Why are liberal DAs and judges allowed to wield energy? Why do folks vote for many who endanger their lives and the lives of their youngsters?
The Bronx decide who freed Hutcherson is morally implicated within the stabbings. He must also be investigated for judicial malpractice.
JR Cummings
Manhattan
Nicole Gelinas’ column once more showcased Mayor Adams as a conman (“Lacking the Prepare,” PostOpinion, Dec. 27).
She factors out that felonies proceed to skyrocket, with greater than 124,000 in 2023. New Yorkers must take a second and notice that is greater than 340 offenses each single day.
Sarcastically, on Christmas, two days earlier than Adams’ press convention touting his supposed success on crime, two younger sisters visiting New York had been stabbed by a person in Grand Central.
It’s obvious that the mayor is in method over his head. On his watch, New York Metropolis has grow to be one huge mess. The one method the town can get well is to vote Adams out of workplace.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
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