Reality check: our unsheltered "homeless" population is almost 100% mentally ill and substance abusing. Many refuse to go to shelters in the first place. The rest behave in ways that necessitate kicking them out of shelters before their behavior causes all the other inhabitants to leave. Our "homeless" population is the direct result of laws and policies that shut down nearly all long-term residential psych hospitals and make it impossible to force mentally ill people into any kind of treatment until after they kill someone.
Nonsense. The problem is rooted in federal laws and federal court decisions. Anyone who is forced into treatment can sue, and activist legal groups will bring these suits anywhere. No medical facility or police or sheriff's department or city/county/state agency can afford these suits (which they will usually lose) so they refuse to do anything about the "homeless" or any other disruptive/dangerous mentally ill people.
Reality check: our unsheltered "homeless" population is almost 100% mentally ill and substance abusing. Many refuse to go to shelters in the first place. The rest behave in ways that necessitate kicking them out of shelters before their behavior causes all the other inhabitants to leave. Our "homeless" population is the direct result of laws and policies that shut down nearly all long-term residential psych hospitals and make it impossible to force mentally ill people into any kind of treatment until after they kill someone.
It’s really not if you don’t live in a progressive shit hole or vote for progressives bent on decriminalizing everything.
Nonsense. The problem is rooted in federal laws and federal court decisions. Anyone who is forced into treatment can sue, and activist legal groups will bring these suits anywhere. No medical facility or police or sheriff's department or city/county/state agency can afford these suits (which they will usually lose) so they refuse to do anything about the "homeless" or any other disruptive/dangerous mentally ill people.
Who is saying anything about treatment?
I am talking about prison.
Where you can force mental health treatment on mentally ill people.
Hence my comment about decriminalization. If you criminalize the behavior and send them to prison, they get treatment one way or another.