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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYC budgeted $2.4 BILLION for the homeless in 2022. I don't know how much of that is for substance abuse and mental health but people don't seem to realize that the kind of mental health challenges many of these people have are not exactly easily treated or managed and that is why they are on the street. Also consider the shortage of mental health providers in general and then think about the subsection that wants to work with the sickest members of our society AND the fact that no one is obliged to accept mental health treatment or continue treatment. I mean we could throw all the money in the world at this but it won't make trained humans appear and it won't fix the mentally ill/substance abusers. Unless there is a change in legislation that would allow the govt to compel treatment or forcibly house the mentally ill it is just throwing good money after bad.

Frankly we need to be putting more money into education and family support of the youngest members of our society. It is much better to invest in a solid start rather than try to fix a broken human. [/quote]

Two choices:
1.  Seek treatment.
2.  Go to jail. 
Their presence on the streets and in the subways is not fair to the millions of Americans who are not drug addicted/mentally ill.  [/quote]

Those choices would come with a heavy direct price tag. Instead we all pay in more indirect ways.

The 80s led to a pendulum swing, 3 strikes, etc. The status quo is not sustainable It's not just cops, it's prosecutors who are more focused on cops than public safety and judges with no accountability who are also soft on crime in many cases. It's like each piece of the system of public safety and orderly society is breaking down or is inverted in goals. [/quote]

That's not going to happen again because people think they have a choice between the tyranny of insanity and tyranny of white supremacy.

People need to look around them and ask which is the more likely and imminent threat. [/quote]

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