Gothamist: Unmedicated Cleaver Killer: "I'm the Messiah"

bitternative

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:36:47 -0500

I have been the target of my schizophrenic sibling's hatred and diabolical manipulation since early childhood. My wish is that all that I and my family have had to put up with happens to all those misinformed individuals that advocate for minimal retention of mental patients. In saving taxpayer dollars by releasing patients from institutions as soon as possible and providing inadequate post-release monitoring, the taxpayers instead spend on processing random violent attacks against innocent persons, routinely unnerving the city. Tarloff wanted to be kept in an institution so that he wouldn't harm anyone. So did Andrew Goldstein in 1999 before pushing a sweet 28-year old woman to her death on the subway tracks. So did many others. So if everyone is on the same page about it, what's the problem here?

west side Michael

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:28 -0500

I hope this horror will teach mental health care professionals to be more careful in the security of their habitats not only for there own skin but that of their patients. I know a Psych.hospital where if a mental patient goes berserk ,no one for about 10 minutes would appear to help and subdue such patient.The so called lets in anybody who looks like a patient by just asking them to sign a book but no check of I.D. at all.

Polite New Yorker

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:21:49 -0500

Considering what happened to the last guy who was supposed to be the messiah, he's got it pretty good.