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To: GreyHoundSailor
Sad to say, could this be a success story ? Re: finding a mentally ill person wanting to do harm.

Full admission, I have not done any research on this.

5 posted on 02/16/2018 8:12:43 PM PST by onona (So I got that going for me)
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To: onona

All happened in the past three days, so not a lot of info out yet. Appears one girl called the local police and they took action; good thing she didn’t call the FBI.


6 posted on 02/16/2018 8:19:55 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: onona

It would not have helped if you had. Half a century ago the ACLU funded a movement to prevent pre-emptive hospitalization of crazy people who were expected to do harm. After watching too many Betty Davis movies, the courts and legislators bought into the notion that civil liberties precluded holding these crazies until they have actually harmed someone or themselves. Or, pretty close to that. It is so embedded one cannot possibly change the law.


20 posted on 02/17/2018 12:49:45 AM PST by anton
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