Remember the good old days when someone like this was institutionalized.
Yes.
I grew up in an area that had a state mental hospital (adult) 12 or 15 miles to the west and a state school (children) 8 miles or so to the east.
In the 1970s due to a “consent decree” both were shut down (it took years) and the residents turned out into the community. Some of them were not equipped to live on the outside, but were “mainstreamed” anyway. One I knew of personally (her son was an aquaintance) ended up suicide by automobile.
The process may or may not have been a success overall, but its effect on the community was undeniable.
As with everything liberals do, it was OVERdone but they feel good about themselves so to the devil with “results,” “success” and such hateful conservative concepts.
true all over NY and probably the country. It’s really sad. Probably almost all of the “street people” (not the homeless in shelters or social services placement in hotels, etc, but the people living in subway tunnels or the wood) would have been institutionalized. A lot of truly random violent crime (which is rare, but people die) wouldn’t happen. But we turned those people out into the cold instead of making their care better, and scratch our head when they didn’t get jobs, start families, and settle into society.