Posted on 07/08/2023 6:17:31 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A strange puzzle piece sits between the worlds of mental health care and the criminal legal system.
For the last decade, nearly every county in Washington has sent a rapidly growing number of people in jail to undergo a competency evaluation — that is, there’s a question as to whether that person can legally stand trial, often due to mental illness, substance use or an intellectual or developmental disability.
Those evaluations are necessary to move a criminal case forward. People deemed incompetent are given treatment, though it’s limited — usually medication and basic legal education to help them understand the court proceedings. If their condition improves, their cases proceed.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Nothing puzzling about it.
These are craven, evil people (perpetrators) who understand the weakness of people who are principled and moral enough to take into account (via legal mechanisms) the possibility that someone may actually be unaccountable for their actions due to REAL mental illness, and they take full advantage of that protective consideration knowing full well that there is an equally craven and evil body of people in the judicial system who WANT them to escape culpability for their illegal actions.
Basically, pathologically evil criminals who engage equally pathological people in the judiciary who have the same goal of releasing instead of punishing them, and then threading them deliberately through that formerly humane loophole.
Sort of a indictment of the US justice system as it is composed today, in the past they have been running cases on people incapable of providing themselves a useful legal case. Spent great sums of money with a legal class that is much more expensive than a mental health class. You cannot convict a potato of crime, but there are potato people in prison that should be in a mental hospital instead of living on the street.
I am conservative and support just and kind mental institutions for the .5% of the population that needs aextrema amounts of care. Saving jail time for the people who understand they are being punished for their real action ups effectiveness of law enforcement. If 1/1000 of the attention was paid to mental health facilities as we spend in crime and punishment cycle of courts jails, the problem for society would be much smaller, just the criminally sane, and the psychopaths would be the public menace.
In 1963 JFK signed the bill to empty the Mental Hospitals, it took time and lawsuits to get it done, but the effect has been terrible for the victims and for the nation’s quality of life, but extraordinarily effective for the left.
It is often based upon, “gaming the system” by the defendants and the mental health “experts.”
this.
The heavy use of potent and dangerous illegal drugs is increasingly common and takes a toll, especially when there is a pre-existing mental disorder or susceptibility. This trend of mentally ill defendants especially reflects the wide use of marijuana, which has a well-documented tendency to cause or aggravate schizophrenia in susceptible individuals.
This and kudos for saying it.
When these phonyass bass turds are determined too crazy to stand trial, they should be “red-flagged” immediately and denied the right to purchase a gun until they are once again deemed competent enough to stand trial.
“In 1963 JFK signed the bill to empty the Mental Hospitals, it took time and lawsuits to get it done, but the effect has been terrible for the victims and for the nation’s quality of life, but extraordinarily effective for the left.”
Not too hard to figure which countries still lock up their crazies...those are the ones with safe cities.
Totally agree with this!
Drugs are a satanic influence on people.
If there was any justice in America the authorities should have to keep them in jail for their protection.
Why do you think the Government is pushing the use of drugs[ "Medical" marijuana, etal]And attacking the use of tobacco? The Government wants drugged up robots that can't think for themselves and will do as they are told without asking questions. Ant the sheep eat it up. The Government knows what they are doing, even if the peasants don't. Just for kicks go look up the noses of Congressional Aides and staffers in Washington, D.C.
Then once the Revolution is complete, they’ll impose the Death Penalty for having drugs.
If you can't stand trial, are you released into the general population? Seems like a mistake.
Well, now: Scanning comments, it’s clear that I’ve read the article and that most others have not.
Glaringly omitted from the article is any data whatsoever on the charges against said individuals aside from casual mention of ‘misdemeanors’.
Some here have astutely identified key aspects of the problem, and here we watch our governments continue to play ‘whack-a-mole’ while once again failing to identify key - rather obvious - inconvenient causes...which are also conveniently omitted from the article:
This is overwhelmingly a blue city problem, stemming from policy decisions by federal demoncrats.
Exactly. Lawyers always try to get their clients on a “treatment track” as standard procedure, and judges order health/mental health evaluations as a form of defensive medicine and CYA at public expense.
The other reality is that a large percentage of criminals either started out with mental problems or brought them on through heavy drug use. Why this is somehow redeeming is beyond me.
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