Take on the suspected man who lit the homeless woman on fire

I know that NYC is one of the safest big cities in the world when it comes to a per capita crime number but when situations happen like what occurred today, it doesn't quite matter that the numbers are when some psycho set a homeless woman on fire and stood around on the platform watching her burn. I've been saying for years that we don't have a crime problem, we don't have a homeless problem as much as we have a mental health one and the idea that we aren't treating and institutionalizing mentally ill people is a failure of the state.
I know mental wards aren't for the feint of heart but I'm not sure having a city fearful of getting shoved in front of a train or set ablaze is much better. The fact we closed them all years ago and just sent the people into the streets and subways is what we are dealing with today.