Yet the mother didn’t have him committed.
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Yes, well one cannot have someone committed. It is not like that. You have no control over that issue. A person has to be an IMMINENT danger to themselves or others or in IMMINENT danger from not taking care of themselves (like a tanking bloodpressure or bleeding ehough to be in danger.
And the docs and the police have to agree and they have a pretty high threshold.
the presently prevalent stringent rules concerning civil commitment came out of a civil rights backlash from it having been too easy in the past. more folks muttering strange things roam the streets now, but there are fewer kafkaesque situations with this kind of soft imprisonment.