
The NYC Subway Shooter, despite Disordered Thoughts, Bears Responsibility for His Crimes
In the near week since Frank James’ alleged Brooklyn subway attack, it’s become accepted wisdom that New York City’s or America’s social-services system failed him — and us. Yet no one has shown any way in which social services could have stopped this attack. What we have is what it looks like: a bad guy who intelligently planned and executed a bad thing.
After the mass shooting, City Councilwoman Alexa Avilés and Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes, who represent Sunset Park, said that it showed how “we need investments in social services — housing, healthcare and education.” Politico wondered “What Brooklyn’s subway shooting reveals about the state of mental health care.”
So far? Nothing.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in New York Post