Make no mistake: The violent stabbing murder of Ryan Carson, caught on gruesome video, was not random.
It was the inevitable outcome of New York City and state’s progressive policy choices.
Like the refusal to pass reforms so the city can get the dangerously mentally ill off the streets and into treatment.
But also our still-broken bail law that’s seen countless thugs and dealers walk free to target other law-abiding citizens.
And our “Raise the Age” disaster, which upped the age of criminal responsibility while removing any serious consequences for young offenders and has driven teen violence and bloodshed skyward.
The progressive politicians responsible for driving those policies now have Carson’s blood on their hands — as they have the blood of so many others.
The tragedy occurred late at night in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; Carson’s killer appeared agitated and violent before the attack, kicking over scooters as he ran along the street.
He turned his rage on Carson, stabbing him in the chest.
Carson died in his girlfriend’s arms.
Activist Ryan Carson was stabbed to death late at night in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this week.CLAUDIAPOSTING/Twitter
A suspect is in custody over the killing: Brian Dowling, 18.
True to an all-too-common narrative, he’s a young man with a history of violence: summonses for disorderly contact, plus a 911 call from a relative after he blew up and went on a smashing spree at his girlfriend’s apartment following a fight in August.
That same relative called him “mentally disturbed.”
Whatever his history, he clearly felt empowered to knock over scooters in fury and to murder a bystander — possible only in a city where public safety is on the wane.
Suspect Brian Dowling, 18, is in police custody and was charged with Carson’s murder.Obtained by NY Post
One of Carson’s friends told The Post that the attacker is “the least important part of this conversation.”
Wrong.
The attacker is the crux of the matter. He is a single, specific human, who took an innocent life.
As much as progressives insist to the contrary, violent crime is not random. Nor is it the product of vague socioeconomic factors that deprive killers of their agency.
Another Carson pal, lefty Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, seemingly seized on the murder to make precisely that argument on Twitter:
Dowling has a history of violence and was called “mentally disturbed” by a relative.
She implied that when the left gets everything it wants, life will be great — even as she took zero responsibility for the fact that policies her comrades champion played a key role in the murder.
And if friends die along the way to the perfect society?
In fact, it’s a war on all public order — making it nearly impossible to hospitalize the dangerously deranged; decriminalizing quality-of-life offenses; making meaningful pre-trial detention impossible; chaining down public prosecutors with insane discovery requirements; letting violent kids escape consequences.
A just economy & government prioritizes housing, healthcare, public transit, & education. NOT militarized police & perpetual punishment. It’s possible for both the killer and the dead to be victims of a broken system. The vision of the left is a vision of a safer world for all.
— Emily Gallagher (@EmilyAssembly) October 4, 2023
Different aspects of that devil’s brew take center stage in different outrages, but it all combines for rising disorder that deepens the damage on every front from teen gun crime to subway shovings and gang warfare.
Every “eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog” in the cauldron has been championed, fought for and achieved by the Empire State’s progressives.
The results are brutally plain: elevated levels of major crime; retail crime so ubiquitous it’s starting to drive out shops like Target; fear and paranoia on the subways.
And now Ryan Carson.
If progressives sleepwalk through the safety crisis after Carson’s death, as they seem eager to do, the nightmares will keep coming, faster and more frequently.
Source link: https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/nyc-activist-ryan-carsons-murder-not-random-progressives-chose-it/