Posted on 10/27/2020 11:13:25 AM PDT by rickmichaels
There has been a rash of incidents in New York City subway stations that have ordinary people scared for their safety. Just last Friday, a homeless mentally ill man pushed a woman from the platform onto the subway tracks, She managed to climb to safety and the police arrested the perpetrator, but with crime in the city careening out of control, the mentally ill homeless problem has taken on a larger dimension.
Authorities are at a loss as to what to do about it. The truth is, it’s complicated. You can’t just snatch the mentally ill off the streets and put them in institutions unless they show they’re a danger to others or themselves. And usually, the only way you can prove that is if they try to kill someone. It’s a quandary that was created by the need to reform the inhumane way that the mentally ill had been treated for centuries.
But in our attempts to be humane, we have created a situation where people’s lives are threatened and the safety of the community is at risk.
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The Democrats made Reagan release the mentally ill from homes.
I was never sure what the end-game was for that.
Simple. Create a whole new class of street bums who try to self-medicate with anything available, p!ss and sh!t on the streets, and generally spawn chaos so you can blame it all on those evil republicans. As bad as mental hospitals ever were they were better than living on the streets.
If she’s on a bathroom break, does he answer? That can’t be good.
Strong competition from Lori Lightfoot of Chiraq and Ted Wheeler of Portland, OR. And let's not forget Jenny Durkin of Seattle (and its entire city council)
IIRC, both parties wanted it. For different reasons. The Rs wanted to remove funding and the Ds didn't think it was fair to incarcerate people who weren't serving a prison sentence.
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