PS: The link to the kidnapping case in the original article did not work. The tweet did not exist (censored?). I have found another link and inserted it.
Clarice PING!
...took THEIR medications
OK, is that non-working link why the original post was taken down?
Letting crime spiral out of control and not punishing criminals is yet another weapon used by democrats in this ongoing CWII.
Add that to lawfare, antifa and blm riots, information warfare, censorship, excessive theft of wealth through taxation, and many other tools, everyone must know that we are in a civil war with the democrat party and this is what modern warfare looks like.
The laws to close down mental hospitals were passed in the early 1960s. The Kennedy administration were huge proponents of “community mental health”.
But the old system (which I trained in) had a lot of momentum. By 1972, the doctors and nurses still were practicing Old Thinking and understood that the patients would suffer and die if they all hit the streets.
And, by the way - my only exposure to severe mental illness was in medical school (I didn’t become a psychiatrist) - and although public anger is rightly directed at the problem of psychotic criminals who prey on the innocent and commit terrible crimes, for every one of them there are 1000 tortured souls who suffer their delusions and who are constantly in danger of death, severe illness, rape, loss of body parts through negligence, etc and for whom there is no help.
The criminally insane are a big problem - but the lack of asylum for the poor people in the grip of mental illness who wander the streets defenseless and terrified is even worse.
All because of one stupid book and one stupid movie.
And why, pray tell, isn’t “Tish” James investigating Chirlane McCray and Warren Wilhelm Jr. (“Bill DeBlasio’s” real name) for the theft of $850 MILLION DOLLARS in NY taxpayer money? Oh that’s right, Orange Man Bad. These people are disgusting. #NewYorkStateofAnarchy…
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A New York State law was passed in 1999 called Kendra's Law, which requires those diagnosed with a dangerous mental illness to have their medication monitored daily (assisted outpatient treatment). The law has to be renewed periodically.
I have a brother-in-law who used to work as a social worker. He told me he'd counsel someone, and they'd seem better, but they'd be back in a month or so for the same thing.
I do wonder if, as he stated, he was really ready to die.
Be careful what you wish for . . .