New York’s Revolving Door For Criminals

A mentally disturbed New Jersey man who attacked a woman in front of other commuters at a crowded New York subway station in July, was not arrested although he was well known to police.  Last week the same man pushed another woman into a moving train, nearly killing her.  Michael Ruiz of Fox News reports that Sabir Jones, 39 was observed by dozens of witnesses during the lunch hour at the crowded 53rd Street station as he pushed a 30-year-old woman into the side of a train.  Bystanders pulled the woman off the tracks and she was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma.  Minutes earlier Jones had punched a man in the face, breaking his jaw.  All of the attacks, including slugging the same poor woman he shoved twice last July, were random.

According to the Essex County, New Jersey district attorney, Jones has multiple priors including convictions for sex crimes, drugs and illegal possession of weapons.  He has also attacked police officers.  Why was he not in jail or in a mental institution?  Crime policies in both New York and New Jersey release offenders like Jones with little or no jail time.  Finally after he nearly kills someone, he gets arrested.  Since 2020, this scenario has played out hundreds of times, with dozens of people pushed into trains, pregnant women being pushed down subway steps, others brutally attacked, sometimes fatally, while riding trains at stations and on New York sidewalks.  This is exactly what happens when crimes go unpunished and the criminals are left on the streets.  Progressives call this criminal justice reform.

“These decarceration advocates forget the prime reason for incarceration,” said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector. “Even if the person is never ‘rehabilitated,’ at least if they’re locked up they’re not free to hurt innocents.”