If we don’t lock up and treat the mentally ill, we’ll continue to pay a deadly price

Source: New York Post
by Stephen Eide

“Last week, in Nebraska, Noemi Guzman tried to kidnap a 3-year-old from Walmart. Horrific bodycam footage from the police shows her holding a knife over the boy, slashing him, before cops shot her dead. Two years prior, a judge let Guzman off for a raft of felony charges, including arson and assault, by reason of insanity. One of the most horrific crimes this decade happened last August, when, on Charlotte North Carolina’s transit system, a mentally ill man named Decarlos Brown allegedly stabbed to death Iryna Zarutska, a complete stranger and Ukrainian refugee. Brown suffers from schizophrenia, yet was let go for previous crimes. His mother said she tried to get him involuntarily committed but was refused.” (04/19/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/opinion/if-we-dont-lock-up-and-treat-the-mentally-ill-well-continue-to-pay-a-deadly-price/