Justice 'reformers' won't be satisfied until NYC is destroyed by black crime

[Max Boof]

The appalling “crime of the day” garnering international attention
to New York City is the attack on teenage tourists.

This attack epitomizes the reason I warn against visiting our once-
great city.

The Big Apple has been destroyed by the policies of criminal-
coddling politicians and liberal-leaning judges.

The suspect, Steven Hutcherson, is known to both Metropolitan
Transportation Authority police and NYPD as an emotionally disturbed
person with 17 prior arrests.

Hutcherson was arrested twice in just the last six months.

The most recent arrest was just last month after Hutcherson
threatened someone with a knife.

He pleaded guilty in two other cases, his Nov. 7 and July 24
weapons-possession charges.

He received a 15-day sentence in the first, and the second was a
conditional discharge, which occurred at his residence.

He also was issued a temporary restraining order against his victim.

Really, judge!? Conditional discharge?

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How about a mandated psych exam and a hospital-inpatient program
where this emotionally disturbed person’s meds can be administered
in a controlled environment?

This is the conversation that ideologues and policymakers refuse to
have.

This offender likely needs daily doses of antipsychotics and
antidepressants to simply manage “the voices” and the violent urges
he is riddled with.

Yet social justice activists fight against any sort of involuntary
treatment, preferring to leave them to suffer on the streets and
pretending they don’t exist.

How is this compassion? How is it safe?

The fact that the victims here were teenage tourists hurts the city
in other ways.

Think the hotel and tourism industry is thrilled to have this kind
of news?

Yet the advocates and Albany won’t be happy until everyone feels
unsafe to walk the streets and the subway.

And until tourists visit the United States decide to hit Disney
World instead.

As a mother of four beautiful children who has worked in the
criminal-justice system for three decades, I have an anxiety attack
whenever my kids visit the city I grew up in.

It’s time for some action.

When judges arraign mentally disturbed offenders they should require
a 72-hour hold for mental evaluation!

We warned policymakers for years that deinstitutionalization and
bail “reform” would be endangering New York’s constituents and
global visitors.

Nobody listened, nobody cared.

And now this man who should have received intervention will serve an
even longer sentence (or not depending on whether Manhattan District
Attorney Alvin Bragg feels like doing his job this time), and two
young girls will forever be traumatized as crime victims.

Policymakers should be held accountable.

Michelle Esquenazi is the president of the National Association of
Bail Agents, the president of the NYS Bail Association and the CEO
of Empire Bail Bonds.

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satisfied-until-crime-destroys-nyc/