Funny, a few weeks back, people here were excoriating the legal system for the inability to involuntary commit people to mental institutions, and were angry that potentially dangerous mentally ill people had been walking around, when they should have at the very least been brought in for observation and evaluation.
Yes, but those people weren’t referring to simply driving by and picking people up on the street and then locking them down for a month and preventing them from contacting the outside world or from having access to a lawyer.
The arguments for that type of thing requires pretty stringent documentation of repeated offenses; and even then a warrant for arrest.
This guy got none of that.