A man is involved in an incident that involves a police officer being shot and another man killed. The court rules that he is incompetent to stand trial, so they let him go. Nine years later, he stabs two police canines before being shot and killed by police.
I understand why you would rule that someone is incompetent to stand trial. What I don’t understand is why that means the crazy person is free to go out and kill again. A video review of the man’s shooting is here:
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Jen · March 1, 2025 at 6:45 am
I clicked on the article just to see how the dogs were. (Recovered)
Joe Blow · March 1, 2025 at 6:49 am
The stupidity on display is fascinating. This is the problem with democratic societies that give voting rights to wimmens…. The bleeding hearts want to take a softer gentler approach to handling these situations, so we close up all the mental institutions that used to house people like this, cuz that would hurt their feelings… Can’t stick ’em in jail, by definition, they know not what they do. SO WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THEM?! They’re not just capable of, but have demonstrated they are prone to violent outbreaks. But rather than restrain them, the one’s that are incompatible w/ functional society, we make the rest of society unsafe, because and I quote: We don’t want to offend the mentally ill person.
They’re not sane enough to stand for the crimes they commit, but we’re not going to reign them in over fear of upsetting their mental state? The same condition that causes them to act out and harm innocent civilians. You’re going to make those innocent civilians suffer w/ the mentally ill persons’ actions, becuase we don’t want to offend the mentally ill person.
Repeal the 19th! It’s the only way.
SiG · March 1, 2025 at 7:57 am
The thing about letting the incompetent person go free seems like one of those, “yes, but…” situations. As soon as it turns into incompetent to stand trial, but we’re going to stick them in a mental hospital, some lawyer is going to argue it’s imprisonment without a fair trial. There’s a shortage of mental institutions and the streets are crawling with incompetent people because it undoubtedly costs more to put them there than in a prison. Was it back in ’80s that they basically emptied out the mental institutions? Costs too much. Heck, you can hire anybody to be a prison guard, but you need a higher level person in the “nut house.”
oldvet50 · March 2, 2025 at 8:06 am
Happens all the time. We had a pResident that was too incompetent to stand trial, yet he was not even removed from office. Same-same.
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