Adams call for involuntary care: Letters to the Editor April 14, 2025
The Issue: Mayor Adams and more proposing involuntary treatment to solve the mental-illness crisis.Mayor Adams is 100% correct on this issue (“Commit with compassion,” Mayor Eric Adams, April 11).We have hundreds of thousands of criminally insane people sleeping on the streets all across America.Add the number of criminally insane people that foreign countries dumped in the United States when Democrats opened the borders, and President Trump is faced with another major crisis that requires urgent attention.Federal hospitals for mentally ill people should be required in large cities to combat this.Daniel RobinowitzDallas, TexasWe’ve seen a “possessed” wigmaker kill someone, a man with a meat cleaver injure children and now a man has randomly attacked a woman with a broken bottle, regardless of his 36 mental-health hearings.The lack of control over these situations highlights an important factor that seems to go ignored: As a society, we must stop this mindset that crimes committed by the mentally ill should be forgiven because they are not in control.
The concept makes it that much easier for true miscreants to play the system.Larry ChipleyOcean View, Del.A lunatic with 36 mental-health hearings and a criminal record was allowed to roam free and slashed a young woman’s neck; no surprise.Such things have been happening all too frequently.When will enough be enough? The radical Albany Legislature needs to allow for much more involuntary commitment.
These crazies belong in hospital care or, if necessary, in prison.Joseph ValenteStaten IslandWhy are the Democrats, especially in New York, so adamant and insane about protecting the rights of perpetrators over those of the victims?Every day there are news stories driving that point home.One day, hopefully soon, the Dems will have to realize that there’s no future for their methods.Jim ForkanBaysideIt’s time to put the sick people with mental illness into a facility.It appears over and over again that jail...