Why did they close all the insane asylums?

From the New York Post.

Knife-wielding maniac goes on random NYC stabbing spree, leaving 2 men dead and one woman critical

Two men were killed and a woman was critically injured by a knife-wielding maniac who went on a random stabbing spree in Manhattan Monday morning, cops and sources said.

The sickening spree began around 8:20 a.m. when the 51-year-old killer approached a 30-year-old man on West 19th Street near Eighth Avenue and knifed him in the stomach, police said.

Long ago in this ageing blogger’s life sickos like this were locked up, not only for our protection but their own. That is no longer the case and the time is long past to return to the practice. By no means should they be locked up in the manner of El Salvador’s prison for violent gang members, rather, since they are mentally ill, in institutions which in the past were titled “hospitals for the criminally insane”, or similarly. The purpose of the institutions, and admittedly there were numerous abuses committed by them leading to their eventual closure, was treatment, if they were treatable.

If the inmates can be cured of the maladies haunting them they can be released to halfway houses, where they enjoy greater freedom but still closely watched for signs of reversion. If so, back they go to the lockups.

When the criminally insane are not treatable they must remain incarcerated, but at least they will be in stable environments where they are fed, clothed and provided with diversions to make their lives tolerable.

Certainly  mental institutions are not perfect but are vastly preferable to dumping sick people on the streets. The present situation can be blamed on, like so many of our social woes, the so-called advocates who insisted the incarceration of the mentally ill somehow violated their “civil rights,” nevermind the rights of the sane not to be attacked by knife-wielding nut jobs roaming the City. Like most left-wing social solutions, they failed and deadly chaos has resulted in the City streets.

Now that it is dawning on our citizenry that left-wing solutions to social problems only make things worse, it is time to revisit the notion of institutions dedicated to the care of those unable to care for themselves, removing them from the streets and protecting the rest of us from the havoc they create.

Also see Elon Musk’s X post on the subject.