The lax attitude toward crime in blue states hasn’t faded even as the country has shifted away from the crime-tolerant attitude of 2020 progressives. This means blue states are still putting residents at risk from dangerous people.

Connecticut just released a man who killed someone with a hatchet and ate part of the victim’s brain and an eyeball. That man, Tyree Smith, was found not guilty by reason of insanity due to schizophrenia and alcohol and drug disorders. In 2013, he was ordered to be confined for 60 years to the state’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital, which seems reasonable enough.

Connecticut’s Psychiatric Security Review Board has now granted Smith supervised release from the hospital, meaning Smith will be able to return to society just 12 years after he was sentenced for hacking a man to death and taking his body parts to a graveyard for a picnic. The review board had already let Smith spend the last nine months in a community facility. According to its 2023 report, he denied hearing voices, hallucinating, or having homicidal thoughts.

According to the report, Smith “denied experiencing cravings, but stated that if they were to arise, he would reach out to his hospital and community supports and providers.” Evidently, we have no choice but to trust the schizophrenic cannibal ax murderer when he claims he isn’t craving human flesh anymore and that he will “reach out” if those cravings come back.

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In 2023, Connecticut legislators considered a bill that would remove the review board and criminal courts from the process of extending the stays for patients. In other words, Connecticut’s concern has been that the Psychiatric Security Review Board is too tough when it comes to evaluating patients. Meanwhile, a murderous cannibal is deemed rehabilitated after 12 years. In fact, according to one psychiatrist, “he is a joy” and “a really calming presence for other patients.”

Smith likely won’t be a calming presence for Connecticut residents as the state grants him more and more freedom. People’s lives are worth more than 12 years in a psychiatric hospital, which is why he was sentenced to 60 years in the first place. But Connecticut is a Democratic haven, which means the soft-on-crime mindset of the Democratic Party is allowed to blossom unchecked, no matter how dangerous it is for residents of the state.