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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was spit on by a homeless lady years ago (during the Obama administration!) and it was terrible and clear we had a problem with mentally ill homeless then.  It has only gotten worse and the reason for this problem is that mentally ill people are left on the streets to their devices.  This isn’t a DC politician problem but a problem created by Ronald Reagan.[/quote]

Plenty of mentally ill people don't assault others. These are bullies.[/quote]

These mentally ill people, peaceful or not, should not be living on the streets.  Reagan did cause this.  The problem lies in the fact that these sick people cannot be forced into hospitals even by loving family members who want them safe and clean.  No one deserves to live like this.  [/quote]

People this ill need to be institutionalized. [/quote]

I wish people would stop saying this. Being institutionalized is not a magic bullet. I work in an inpatient mental health facility. It is a revolving door of patients in and out. They will receive treatment, stabilize, and get discharged. They leave, go off their meds, commit another crime, and are right back where they started. We can’t hold these people forever. And once they leave, we can’t force them to take their meds. There is really no good answer. [/quote]

You must be younger bc you are misunderstanding what people are suggesting. In decades past, people could be committed and remain in an residential institution for a long time - even a lifetime - and you can image the abuse that occurred. Laws were changed and those residential institutions had to be closed and the people reintegrated into their local communities. But the support to those communities and families was not well established and it was ignored that some families would lack the ability to deal with a mentally ill person who is unmedicated.[/quote]

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