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If this get's the "war on drugs" going back to full strength I am all for it. We need to start locking up our nations illegal drug users, In particular lock up crack, meth, heroin, and now bath salt users. they are bad people and they are breaking the law. It would be such a sweet and innocent culture with no drug users in the mix. No one would have to worry about their face being eaten by some drug crazed barbarian.
All rightie. You want to pay for all those people to be locked away?
Most gruesome story I personally have ever heard. I walked home last night at midnight through the dark streets of Brooklyn and it was on my mind, More so because I passed by an abandoned/derelict house and heard a noise come from within. I picked up the pace to get home hoping i don't encounter something charging me from the alleyway.
We don't have mental hospitals where indigent people can be committed. That's why a large segment of the homeless people are mentally ill. The public mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s and those people were turned out on the streets for the most part. Many have no family.
Until the 1970s, the mentally ill were usually treated in public psychiatric hospitals, more commonly known as insane asylums.
Then, a social movement aimed at freeing patients from big, overcrowded and often squalid state hospitals succeeded. Rather than leading to quality treatment in small, community settings, however, it often resulted in no treatment at all.
As a consequence, thousands of mentally ill ended up on the streets, where they became involved in criminal activity.
We don't have mental hospitals where indigent people can be committed. That's why a large segment of the homeless people are mentally ill. The public mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s and those people were turned out on the streets for the most part. Many have no family.
Until the 1970s, the mentally ill were usually treated in public psychiatric hospitals, more commonly known as insane asylums.
Then, a social movement aimed at freeing patients from big, overcrowded and often squalid state hospitals succeeded. Rather than leading to quality treatment in small, community settings, however, it often resulted in no treatment at all.
As a consequence, thousands of mentally ill ended up on the streets, where they became involved in criminal activity.
In short, until that situation gets taken care of in a more proactive way, more mentally ill people will be on the streets.
We don't have mental hospitals where indigent people can be committed. That's why a large segment of the homeless people are mentally ill. The public mental hospitals were closed in the 1970s and those people were turned out on the streets for the most part. Many have no family.
Until the 1970s, the mentally ill were usually treated in public psychiatric hospitals, more commonly known as insane asylums.
Then, a social movement aimed at freeing patients from big, overcrowded and often squalid state hospitals succeeded. Rather than leading to quality treatment in small, community settings, however, it often resulted in no treatment at all.
As a consequence, thousands of mentally ill ended up on the streets, where they became involved in criminal activity.
So basically another example where progressives failed. How sad.
So basically another example where progressives failed. How sad.
So why don't you conservatives pick up the ball and do something about it?
The indigent mentally ill are largely warehoused in our jails and prisons now; that is expensive and not really very effective for you cost-concerned conservative taxpayers.
Ahhh, but you guys never look for positive solutions, only opportunities for blame.
Seems progressives never think ahead. Release them to what? Don't know, don't care, just get it passed so they can pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Sigh.
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