A stabbing at Penn Station shows the design failure at the core of our criminal justice system.
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On Sunday, police charged Hector Deleon, an “emotionally disturbed” and homeless 51-year-old, with slashing six fellow New Yorkers in an unprovoked attack at New York’s bustling Penn Station. Deleon, the New York Post subsequently reported, has a vibrant criminal history: another slashing committed in Newark four years ago and six other prior arrests, including “aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon, use or possession of drugs, assault, domestic assault and criminal mischief.”
Charles Fain Lehman is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and senior editor of City Journal.
