[T.B. Yoits]

Homelessness can be solved.

Lock up drug dealers and buyers. Institutionalize the mentally ill who are self-medicating.

[ClearCase_guy]

Truly. It’s drugs and mental illness. Focus on those problems (as you indicate) and the amount of homeless people will be negligible — and they will all be temporary homeless who have fallen on a bit of hard times and can be easily helped by a church or other community group.

Mental institutions and prisons should do the bulk of the work — and we’re not locking people up for the “crime of being homeless”. We’re locking people up because they are truly “a danger to themselves and others”. It is inhumane not to lock them up.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

No. SHOOT drug dealers.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

At any given time about 34% to 36% of our county jail will have bonafide mentally ill inmates. By law the county is responsible for their health needs while in there. Typically they'll get the meds and treatment they're supposed to be getting on their own, and they'll settle into being model citizens. But when they get out, won't take their meds, keep appointments, ultimately get picked back up and the process starts all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat.