On Christmas Day, a stranger stabbed two tourists from Paraguay, both teenaged females, in Grand Central Terminal.
Like so many other random acts of street violence, this case illustrates the asymmetry in accountability between New York’s criminal-justice and mental-health systems.
About two weeks prior, the man accused of the stabbing, Steven Hutcherson, was released at a court hearing for a previous charge.
That was a mistake, but at least we know who to blame: Bronx Judge Matthew Grieco, who made the wrong call not to place someone in confinement who needed it.
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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