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New York’s revolving-door justice for serial perps extends far beyond the no-bail law: “Diversion” programs are yet another way progressives keep dangerous offenders from facing serious consequences — with deadly results.
The Post reported Sunday that Wei Hou, the Chinese immigrant who allegedly murdered his elderly mother in December, should have been behind bars for a felony drug bust when he committed the vile crime — but his sentence got slashed by 90%.
Hou was sentenced to two years in prison for third-degree possession of a controlled substance in June of 2025, but instead got sent to a 90-day drug treatment program and released in October.
Mere months later, he stands charged with beating his elderly mother to death.
With multiple prior arrests and had a history of schizophrenia, Hou never should have been eligible for the slap-on-the-wrist diversion program, which is supposed to be for first-time offenders.
He’s hardly a unique case.
In 2023, Amari Oneal and Ali Mohammed dodged jail time for an illegal guns bust, getting diverted to a “gun accountability and prevention” program instead: Cut to January 2025, when they were charged with shooting a man execution-style in The Bronx.
In another heart-wrenching case, a man sent into a diversion program after a grand larceny bust in 2023 gunned down a two-year-old in the street in April 2024.
Then there was the sicko who was released on the condition that he receive mental-health treatment after raping a 14-year-old in 2023 — only to rape another teen last year.
Other blue cities have seen similar results: In San Francisco, a homeless drug addicted with a mile-long rap sheet was enrolled in a diversion program when he beat a woman to death in her home in November.
Diversion programs can sound reasonable enough as a rehabilitative alternative to incarceration that might save taxpayers some money and keep low-level offenders from serving hard time.
But that’s only if treatment sticks; progressives refuse to pay any attention to who diversion actually works for — or whether tiny pilot programs that “prove success” can effectively scale up.
The pile of bodies stacking up thanks to these programs is more than enough proof that they can’t.
Soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors are using diversion programs as cover to keep even the worst repeat offenders out of prison, and the innocent New Yorkers they’re supposed to protect are paying the price with their lives.