No, not always.
Not too long ago, the mentally illwere locked for their own, and oupr safety. Sadly, during thev60s, people became concerned that they were locked up and insisted that ehybbe set fre.
So they were.
Too many mentallynill live on thevstreets as homeless.
Returning military, who are the main source of the LAPLd’s hiring DO NOT join the police department to take care of them.
That is just a lie!
Sorry about my iPad typing and spell check .... Sigh.
Yes, JFK emptied the mental hospitals with the last bill he signed in 1963, but the homeless, the bums, the drifters, the winos, have always existed, just in lessor numbers.
Even the Soviet Union could not keep homeless men from existing.