Repeat Offenders to City: Drop Dead.
New York lawmakers have been viewing criminals through rose-colored glasses.
The past decade of reform policies treated offenders as innocent neighbors bamboozled by “root causes,” like poverty or poor education, into doing bad things.
Our sympathetic laws chipped away at the criminal justice system’s ability to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these lambs, instead offering them social services — so they wouldn’t want to prey on others.
But last Sunday this dream-world conception of criminality went up in flames. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, reportedly a K2 addict in this country illegally (for the second time) lit a sleeping woman on fire on the F train.
Then he stood back and watched her burn to death, gently fanning the blaze as it consumed her standing body.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
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