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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t blame the others on the train - I’d be sacred out of my mind in this situation.

The more important question is why was this career criminal allowed to walk the streets?[/quote]
He’s homeless and like many homeless people, likely has serious mental illness.  . . . we need better mental health access in this country   . .  . Well, the same applies here. [/quote]

I agree completely.  This was obviously a severely (dangerously) mentally ill person (and a repeat offender).

We need to make the commitment to bring back mental health hospitals on the scale of other developed countries (EU, Japan, etc). as we once had here, but we foolishly eliminated in the 1950s through the 1980s.

The movement to eliminate these crucial mental-health facilities was called “de-institutionalization” and it quite effectively closed-down virtually every in-patient mental health facility in existence at the time (the so-called “insane asylums”).

Problem was: we, as a society, replaced the much-needed mental health services with: nothing. Or virtually nothing.

They simply put the severely mentally ill people out on the street, or they dumped them on ill-equipped family (who then turned the patient out, onto the street).

Why does everyone wonder why we have so many severely-mentally-ill people living on our streets?

Sure: reform was needed by the 60s, but reform did kit happen. Shuttering and elimination happened.

Bring back in-patient hospitals, like they still have in the rest of the developed world.

Wiki has relevant background information on de institutionalization at this link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
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