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Reply to "How can we strengthen our laws.to have severely mentally ill in the District committed?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the problem with red flag laws. How do you define mental illness? And who is making this judgement call? Civil rights? What are the checks and balances? You cant just go around arbitrarily plucking out people whom you deem are crazy....and if that was the case 2/3 of people posting in dcum would be committed.[/quote] Courts do this, all the time. There's a mental health court located right inside Bellevue in NYC. [/quote] But a "mental" person has to commit a crime first or be a threat to himself or others. If we are talking about the ubiquitous homeless folks, odd ball neighbors, and the like than there is no way to get them committed and if the streets pre-emptively.[/quote] Threat to themself or others is the rub. I have walked by people on the street shouting "you're gonna die" or "I'm gonna kill you". How do YOU interpret that? Current law certainly looks the other way, youre right [/quote]
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