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   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?   
      
   https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/steven-   
   hutcherson-stabbed-two-teenage-74159046.jpg?   
   resize=1024,991&quality=75&strip=all   
      
   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.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/12/27/opinion/justice-reformers-wont-be-   
   satisfied-until-crime-destroys-nyc/   
      
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