In the long run it is less expensive to fund asylums and get this Communtiy based mental health off the streets. The costs in police, homelessness and different street programs would be eliminated. Having the mentally ill run around homeless is expensive. Not to mention the risk for them and the general publicn.
Thank you for your gentle heart. More understanding is needed. But, is locking these people up the way to go? How do we go forward? Such a sad, sad situation.