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 Robinowitz
Dallas, Texas
We’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 Chipley
Ocean 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 Valente
Staten Island
Why 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 Forkan
Bayside
It’s time to put the sick people with mental illness into a facility.
It appears over and over again that jail is not the answer. These people just get released and commit their crimes again.
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
The Issue: Mayor Adams’ plan to hire 3,700 teachers in accordance with New York’s class size law.
In yet another fiasco in New York City’s mismanagement of public education, Mayor Adams will now support the hiring of 3,700 new teachers (“The Class-Size Con,” Editorial, April 11).
All of this for a school system that is declining in enrollment and has been nothing short of a failure in educating children. Of course, in reality, this is yet another payoff to the teachers’ union.
If New York was truly serious about providing a quality education, three things would be done: grant more licenses for charter schools, work with the archdiocese of New York to restore and reopen parochial schools and restructure the Department of Education while instilling competent leadership along with real standards of excellence.
John Mancuso
Naples, Fla.
Class-size reduction and adding 3,700 new teachers is the United Federation of Teachers’ way of filling up empty classrooms that will no longer be available for charter schools.
Scores will go up, and parent involvement will increase, only when welfare payments are linked to test scores. Nothing else has worked in my 50 years of experience.
Don’t pay attention to the UFT; it represents adults’ needs, not children’s. That’s the DOE’s job, and it stinks at it.
Michael Castagna
Brooklyn
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