Another horrific chicago train attack by a serial violent offender, he set young woman on fire

[Anonymous]

In my 20s (10 years ago) I took the blue line to work every morning. I was afraid every single morning. There were people shooting up openly, crazy people threatening me, guys jerking it.
That was when Rahm was mayor. It's worse now!
This is the reason American car culture is so ingrained. No one wants to take the train with their kids when it's a moving metal asylum.
I can see the skyline from my upstairs windows and I will not set foot in that city until there is a sane mayor. Each one is worse than the last. They do not care at all about losing tourist dollars-- There was a shooting at the Christmas tree ceremony! The only thing they care about is siphoning money towards their friends and calling it "community services."

[Anonymous]

There will always be crazy violent people. We can’t solve 100%. It’s the overall trend that we should be concerned with. In general, violent crimes are trending down.

Agree we also need more services for people. Tax the billionaires. No one needs a 5th yacht.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There will always be crazy violent people. We can’t solve 100%. It’s the overall trend that we should be concerned with. In general, violent crimes are trending down.

Agree we also need more services for people. Tax the billionaires. No one needs a 5th yacht.

Trending doen ain't enough. There is sbsolutely no excuse whatsoever for individuals to be repeatedly released to cause horrific harm to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Expect to see more of this. Despair and Nihilism are on the rise, especially among young men, while violent rhetoric online is radicalizing them.

Nihilism?

This guy had like 50 previous arrests.

Stop deflecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Expect to see more of this. Despair and Nihilism are on the rise, especially among young men, while violent rhetoric online is radicalizing them.

Nihilism?

This guy had like 50 previous arrests.

Stop deflecting.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thousands of researchers are doing endless studies & writing countless articles about crime & punishment. We need to start considering the concept that perhaps there ISN’T a nice clean cure for habitual criminality; no magic pill or curative therapy. Maybe the best we can do is isolate the criminals from the public. And at this point I don’t really care if that means we have a higher % of our citizens behind bars than f’ing Denmark has.

This person is insane. He needs to be committed to a mental health facility not a prison. There are in fact “magic pills” for treating mental illness. That someone has to have the ability to understand between right and wrong has been a bedrock of the criminal justice system for hundreds of years.

We cannot commit someone into a mental institution and force them to stay. We can however, imprison them. I don’t care if they don’t know right from wrong, they have no place in society and need to be removed.

[Anonymous]

The issue is that civil rights and disability advocates keep fighting for only VOLUNTARY treatment and say it is abusive to force people into treatment or asylums even if people are mentally ill, violent, do not understand they are delusional, and are on the streets.

The rights of deluded individuals are many times over more important than the rights of working class people to access safe transportation and to walk on sidewalks clear and free of tents, sleeping people, aggressive individuals.

No one should be allowed to attack others and simply get released to attack another person, and then another.

After a completely UNPROVOKED attack on a social worker who ended up unconscious with a concussion, a chipped tooth and optic nerve bruising. The prosecutor begged Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez to keep Reed in jail.

He pleaded, “The defendant poses a real and present threat to the safety of, especially this victim, whoever else was working in the hospital that day, and the community as a whole. The defendant randomly and spontaneously became irate in this situation where the victim was just attempting to do her job as a social worker, and now as a result, suffered injuries so severe that she still has side effects on a daily basis."

He also reviewed his past crimes including arson and attacking other women.

“I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to, but I understand and respect your position,” the judge told prosecutors, according to court transcripts.

So he was released with an ankle monitor.

Why is it so many supposed mentally ill men are declared so mentally ill but are with it enough to know not to attack a man of their size. They target females and people smaller than they are. If you understand that then maybe you are really just an evil person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue is that civil rights and disability advocates keep fighting for only VOLUNTARY treatment and say it is abusive to force people into treatment or asylums even if people are mentally ill, violent, do not understand they are delusional, and are on the streets.

The rights of deluded individuals are many times over more important than the rights of working class people to access safe transportation and to walk on sidewalks clear and free of tents, sleeping people, aggressive individuals.

No one should be allowed to attack others and simply get released to attack another person, and then another.

After a completely UNPROVOKED attack on a social worker who ended up unconscious with a concussion, a chipped tooth and optic nerve bruising. The prosecutor begged Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez to keep Reed in jail.

He pleaded, “The defendant poses a real and present threat to the safety of, especially this victim, whoever else was working in the hospital that day, and the community as a whole. The defendant randomly and spontaneously became irate in this situation where the victim was just attempting to do her job as a social worker, and now as a result, suffered injuries so severe that she still has side effects on a daily basis."

He also reviewed his past crimes including arson and attacking other women.

“I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to, but I understand and respect your position,” the judge told prosecutors, according to court transcripts.

So he was released with an ankle monitor.

Why is it so many supposed mentally ill men are declared so mentally ill but are with it enough to know not to attack a man of their size. They target females and people smaller than they are. If you understand that then maybe you are really just an evil person.

The issue is not civil rights. When you've been arrested 50 times, all bets should be off. I don't give a damn about your made up civil rights at that point. You are preying on people. PERIOD.

Stop defending the indefensible. Start getting tough with these people. They've done a lot of damage.

[Anonymous]

We need more of this to happen to liberal white women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is because violent repeat offenders are not prosecuted and if they are it us too light of a sentence before they are released from jail.

There needs to be mandatory incarceration of mentally ill who are convicted or crimes it found not mentally competent.

Reed’s criminal record includes nearly 50 prior arrests since 2017, with past convictions for arson, aggravated battery, and assault.

THIS. All of it.

Throwing people in jail seems to have done a great job of preventing crime. /s

We have the highest number of incarcerated people in the world and yet still plenty of crime. Throwing people in jail is not working. Maybe fix the actual problems instead of throwing people away.

Jail makes one a better criminal, if anything, we are making the problems worse. Violent offenders should not be released

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need more of this to happen to liberal white women.

You obviously don't actually have a problem with this crime if that's your stance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need more of this to happen to liberal white women.

Well it sure won’t happen any maga women because they can’t afford to live in cities because their husbands are losers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need more of this to happen to liberal white women.

Well it sure won’t happen any maga women because they can’t afford to live in cities because their husbands are losers.

Interesting how liberals in liberal jurisdictions always manage to twist it into a political issue, but if they only had their grant money... Kind of like all of these Black men they martyr. Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland. How is Black Lives Matter a winning issue for Democrats. I don't get it.

Never let a tragedy go to waste, I guess.

[Anonymous]

I live in chicago and I’m fairly liberal but this is ridiculous. Three strikes and you are out! We could have prevented this.

[Anonymous]

It absolutely does not matter why this man or the man in Charlotte committed murders and atrocities. All that matters is that someone with 50+ prior arrests for arson, battery, assault, robbery, etc. should NEVER walk freely in the general population.