Nothing puzzling about it.
These are craven, evil people (perpetrators) who understand the weakness of people who are principled and moral enough to take into account (via legal mechanisms) the possibility that someone may actually be unaccountable for their actions due to REAL mental illness, and they take full advantage of that protective consideration knowing full well that there is an equally craven and evil body of people in the judicial system who WANT them to escape culpability for their illegal actions.
Basically, pathologically evil criminals who engage equally pathological people in the judiciary who have the same goal of releasing instead of punishing them, and then threading them deliberately through that formerly humane loophole.
Sort of a indictment of the US justice system as it is composed today, in the past they have been running cases on people incapable of providing themselves a useful legal case. Spent great sums of money with a legal class that is much more expensive than a mental health class. You cannot convict a potato of crime, but there are potato people in prison that should be in a mental hospital instead of living on the street.
I am conservative and support just and kind mental institutions for the .5% of the population that needs aextrema amounts of care. Saving jail time for the people who understand they are being punished for their real action ups effectiveness of law enforcement. If 1/1000 of the attention was paid to mental health facilities as we spend in crime and punishment cycle of courts jails, the problem for society would be much smaller, just the criminally sane, and the psychopaths would be the public menace.
In 1963 JFK signed the bill to empty the Mental Hospitals, it took time and lawsuits to get it done, but the effect has been terrible for the victims and for the nation’s quality of life, but extraordinarily effective for the left.
It is often based upon, “gaming the system” by the defendants and the mental health “experts.”
When these phonyass bass turds are determined too crazy to stand trial, they should be “red-flagged” immediately and denied the right to purchase a gun until they are once again deemed competent enough to stand trial.
If you can't stand trial, are you released into the general population? Seems like a mistake.
Well, now: Scanning comments, it’s clear that I’ve read the article and that most others have not.
Glaringly omitted from the article is any data whatsoever on the charges against said individuals aside from casual mention of ‘misdemeanors’.
Some here have astutely identified key aspects of the problem, and here we watch our governments continue to play ‘whack-a-mole’ while once again failing to identify key - rather obvious - inconvenient causes...which are also conveniently omitted from the article:
This is overwhelmingly a blue city problem, stemming from policy decisions by federal demoncrats.
Multiple reasons, many mentioned in the comments.
I add the fact that our progressive society has bred 2 generations of conscience-less sociopaths and mixed thoroughly with a massive use of psychotropic drugs erroneously used to treat behavioral problems.
Criminals are taking advantage of the system!?
No way!!
In reality, the worst problem here in WA state is that the judicial bureaucracy is so mentally defective that normal people are perceived as “abnormal”. So, there’s that...