Hillary Was Right the First Time
The shelters themselves are often scenes of rampage. If certain people can't be controlled within a mental health facility, what hope is there for controlling them once they've left?
The man charged in the recent shooting death of New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller is Guy Rivera. Rivera, 34, had been arrested nearly two dozen times on drug and attempted assault charges. What was he doing out free?
We know this is a big sprawling problem. The closing of mental hospitals decades ago was intended to save taxpayers money while offering "clients" more humane care in community centers. But community centers were also not free and were never properly financed.
Outpatient services could probably help a lot of mentally ill people. But there are those they obviously cannot reach. These individuals spread fear and crime in their own neighborhoods and beyond. The "clients" create communities of innocent victims.
In the off-chance they can be fixed with intensive psychiatric care, treatment must be done in locked facilities. Meanwhile, it's time to call these sick people by their proper name, superpredators.
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