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Recently, two stories broke through the noise. Two women. Two cities. Two unprovoked attacks. And two predators who never should have been walking free.

Here’s the hard truth no one wants to say out loud: These attacks are not random. They’re the result of a system that shrugs off accountability, ties the hands of judges, and lets predators roam free — all in the name of “compassion.”

Bethany MaGee, 26, stepped onto a Chicago train expecting an ordinary ride home. Instead, a man she had never met doused her with a flammable liquid and set her on fire. She now faces years of surgeries and a lifetime of trauma.

More than three months earlier, Iryna Zarutska, 23, boarded a light-rail car in Charlotte. Moments later she was stabbed by a man with a long history of crim

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