New York criminal justice policy in a nutshell...

Elderly man who was doing his job is assaulted by a man half his age and twice his size and the elderly man defends himself with a knife. Elderly man spends a week at Rikers Island on $500 thousand bail and faces second degree murder charges.

Dude jumps up on stage and tries to slit the neck of the Republican candidate for governor. Dude is released without spending a single day in detention.

But, yeah, New Yorkers still think that the Republicans have their heads up their asses.