The Psycho Firebug who tried to kill the governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro last weekend is a product of the broken and perverted mental health systems of the state of Keystone, which looks a lot like those of New York.
Cody Balmer, the incendiary that Arrowing two Molotov cocktails illuminated in the Shapiros living room while the family slept, had a history of violence and a serious mental illness that should see it in jail or obtain in the long term,
When he carried out his sick plot to burn the living Shapiros, Balmer was on bail for allegedly trampling his 10 -year -old broken legs and attacking his wife separated in 2023.
But that’s not all: in the days before the attack, Balmer’s mother, Christie, called for crisis intervention and multiple police departments, desperately trying that her son committed to a mental institution.
“He was mentally ill, the medications took off, and this is what happened,” he said.
Christie knew His son was a danger and guided by help.
However, the authorities did silver Because Balmer “had not threatened himself or others” and, therefore, “did not comply with the threshold of an involuntary mental health evaluation,” he insisted on the police department of the municipal of Penbrook.
Yes: the “threshold” is so high that only a violent madman whose own family is please for intervention, for example, evaluatedAnd much less committed.
When Balmer was arrested for cruelly attacking his own son and wife, the homeless bail laws of Pennsylvania sent him back to the streets.
When the authorities were warned that it was a timbre time bomb, Wacko’s involuntary commitment standards tied his hands.
Does it sound familiar? This is because New York has so many similar stories of breach of clear threats after bars, with disastrous consequences.
However, the stubborn state legislators are maintaining the budget to resist even modest improvements to involuntary commitment laws, while not Bail is a cow so sacred in Albany that no one will touch it.
Victims should not fear that their abusers so solar after a trial; Terrified families should run out of resorting when a loved one is losing a battle for mental illness.
And emotionally disturbed people must stay to Reak Havoc just because the state is apprehensive to worry without their explicit consent.
New York has no shortage of maniacs that go crazy in our streets, but so far, elected officials are among the victims.
What happened in Pennsylvania could happen easily here, unless Albany takes seriously the protection of the public of obvious dangers like Balmer.
