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It seems to me that policies that address mental illness, addiction, and homelessness would be a more effective and cost-effective use of public money than incarcerating people who are mentally ill, addicted, or homeless. And better for libraries, too.[/quote]

I would be all for the "nice" approach to addressing the problem if there was evidence that it worked. As evidence to the contrary,[b] I offer you San Francisco and Seattle[/b].[/quote]

Oh? What policies addressing mental illness, addiction, and homelessness have San Francisco and Seattle implemented? [/quote]

You can read about it all online. Each city proudly has a wikipedia page documenting their homeless crisis. You'll be happy to know that everyone involved in producing those two disasters started out with good intentions and a desire to help people.[/quote]

No, please don't tell me to read about it on Wikipedia. Tell me what policies they've implemented. You referred to them, so you must know about them.[/quote]

OK.  San Francisco spends about $279 million annually through the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hsh.sfgov.org, which runs numerous programs listed at that site. This is up from $180 million in 2012-13. Now if you don't want to read about it, you can google "San Francisco homeless images" to see what San Franciscans are experiencing as a result of all that spending.[/quote]

OK, so San Francisco spends almost three hundred million dollars. That doesn't tell us [i]anything[/i] about the policy, the effectiveness of the policy, or how much it would cost to put people in jail instead. It's like saying that the US spends a kajillion dollars on the military, and you can Google "war images" to see what people in the world are experiencing as a result of all that spending. [/quote]

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