Two men were stabbed in Queens by moped-riding robbers Friday, and 3,000 miles away Oakland is reeling from a mass stabbing carried out by a parolee the system knew was dangerous — and released anyway. Ordinary Americans are paying in blood for the choices of prosecutors and parole boards who keep putting repeat offenders back on the street.

In Bayside, two suspects on a scooter approached two men just before 12:30 a.m. on 201st Street north of 42nd Avenue and attacked them with a knife during a robbery attempt, according to AM New York. A 23-year-old was stabbed in the lower back and right shoulder; a 52-year-old took a knife wound to the knee and a slash to the stomach. Both survived. The suspects fled southbound on 201st Street.

In Oakland, the consequences were deadlier. Jose Jesus Rodriguez, 34, a homeless man with mental health issues, allegedly went on a 30-minute stabbing rampage across Cesar Chavez Park and three other locations Monday, killing one and injuring four, the New York Post reported. Chilling footage shows Rodriguez approaching his first victim, who backs away before he begins stabbing her repeatedly.

Here is the part the soft-on-crime crowd doesn't want to talk about: Rodriguez was already a convicted stabber. In 2019, he attacked an Uber driver and a garbage collector with a knife. He went to prison — and was released on parole in 2023.

After his release, Rodriguez racked up multiple parole violations. He allegedly tried to bite off a police officer's ear and swung a wooden board at two people. He failed to find work. A parole agent wrote last year that "there are no programs to appropriately address Rodriguez's escalating behavior" and that he "poses a significant threat to the community."

The system was warned, in writing, by its own agent. And Rodriguez walked anyway.

Legal analyst Steven Clark told KTVU the case fuels debate over how Oakland handles public safety. "It's understandable why the community may feel that the pendulum has swung too far in favor of the defendant instead of public safety when you see a case like this," Clark said.

Oakland resident Moe Hassan, speaking near the site of two of the stabbings, told KTVU: "That was very, very scary. We need to get a hold on it. Mental health is very strong in Oakland, and it's like more and more every day."

Rodriguez now faces murder and assault charges and is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail — locked up only after a body was on the ground.

AM New York covered the Queens stabbing straight — time, place, injuries — without touching the broader pattern of violent repeat offenders on the street. The Post, by contrast, laid out the parole paper trail that let Rodriguez escalate from knifings to a killing spree. Both stories tell the same larger truth: Americans are being stabbed by men the criminal justice system had already caught and chose to release.

How many more warnings do parole boards and progressive prosecutors need before they do their one actual job — keeping violent people off the streets?