A mentally ill black man with a long rap sheet and an outstanding felony warrant - Jordan Neely - boarded a NYC subway car and began to rant and assault passengers. After trying to reason with him a former Marine put Neely in a choke hold and subdued him, with the aid of two other male passengers. When authorities arrived they found Neely had died, whether from being subdued or from a drug overdose is unclear. AOC called it murder, as did others. The former Marine was released.
Writing in response to this, Stephen Eide writes for City Journal that the death shows flaws in our mental-health system. Reprinting the CJ column, the New York Post headlines it in a more descriptive way.
Jordan Neely tragedy shows the vital need for involuntary commitment
It is refreshing to see sources I respect beginning to talk about an issue COTTonLINE has harped on for years, feeling lonely in my concerns. A quick search shows the first time we wrote about our national failure to incarcerate and treat mental illness was in 2007, when this blog was less than a half year old.
