The System™ Won't Lock People Up Until Someone Dies

From The Other McCain we get a story from the end of 2023, though it really, it stretches back farther in time than one incident in November. Crazy People Are Dangerous

Adam Garcia fatally stabbed someone in Minneapolis in November. This was not his first interaction with law enforcement. He even stabbed a person with a hypodermic needle in 2019. He was arrested numerous times, but always released.

Despite these grievous felonies, Garcia was discharged from probation in late 2022, just three years later. Nor was this an isolated incident. Garcia has had 46 separate criminal charges in the past five years, and that was before what happened in November.

You can click thru for the details. He stabbed 62-year-old Chris Lundegaard 5 times.

How was this guy on the street? He should have been in a padded cell, strapped into a straitjacket and given twice daily dose of Thorazine for the rest of his life. What part of “substantial likelihood of causing physical harm” do I need to explain here?

The simple answer is Social Justice, which, I should note, has absolutely nothing to do with actual Justice. Social Justice means never locking people up, as that would be mean and unfair. It also means not viewing people as being responsible for their own actions.

The longer answer has to do with the country's reaction to the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. We altered our entire stance on how to deal with the mentally ill based on one movie. Probably not a good way to formulate policy.

Now this guy is being held pending a psych evaluation. At least he is being held.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.