A Queens crook’s 23 arrests before a stabbing attack on a store clerk show New York’s insane crime has failed

23 arrests: That’s how many the mentally disturbed street sleeper Niser Cekic has amassed before He stabbed a fruit seller in Queens multiple times.

The salesman told him to move, and Cekic flew into a violent rage when he was woken from his nap on the asphalt.

Miraculously, the victim of this heinous attack is still alive.

But let’s be clear: this is purely coincidental. This story could have ended with another gruesome murder.

As with so many of these incidents, the question arises: Why?

Why on earth was Cekic, who almost certainly appears to be suffering from severe mental illness, allowed to make nearly two dozen arrests?

It must have been clear all — the police officers who charged him, the judges and prosecutors who ultimately kept him on the streets — that the man was a time bomb waiting to go off.

He was arrested for petit larceny, trespassing, criminal possession and bail jumping.

And now he’s taken the usual step in New York’s (often mentally ill) criminal class and moved on to attempted murder and assault.

Again, the “tried” part is just luck.

His story is similar to that of Monique Fort, another member of the club with a lengthy criminal record.

Fort had already made 14 arrests before she attacked a woman and robbed her child in the Bronx, and was eventually released again after her last crime.

Continue to monitor this area.

Thanks to New York’s crazy crime policy And In the context of mental illness, it’s almost certain that Fort’s name will appear here after she commits a new atrocity.

That’s what happens when progressives first refuse to acknowledge that some people are just too sick in the head to let them walk free – and then cripple police, prevent judges from detaining dangerous defendants before trial, and impose insanely onerous demands on the police Introduce paperwork for prosecutors and generally try to legalize crimes.

You’re dealing with the long fuses of guys like Cekic and Fort.

And when will the explosion come?

No compassion. No responsibility. And above all, no shame.