Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Anecdotal Annie here: I'm working down near Union Station for a few weeks. Had my first NG siting at Union Station and honestly? It felt like a huge relief just to have extra presence around. To get there for lunch, I walk a gauntlet of homeless folks who have posted up in front of the Post Office Museum. Last week, one of them was screaming and grunting, zig zagging up and down the sidewalk. As a bystander, and a DC resident of 20 years (no snowflake) it was scary. It made me angry. Especially when you see where schizophrenia can lead like what happened in Charlotte. This person needs to be involuntarily committed and receive serious help and medication, but while we wait for that to happen, I'm grateful for the larger law enforcement presence, wherever it comes from.
Reagan closed all of the places where people can be committed. It is part of why there was such a huge homeless explosion since the 1980's. GOP cuts to health and human services and the VA pretty much guarantees this is the result.
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