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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^[twitter]https://twitter.com/nbcwashington/status/1752462643699368209[/twitter]

His little girls are so young, it's an absolute tragedy. And terrifying that you can hand over keys and be murdered or stabbed anyway, that seems to be increasing. The false sense that you would be a "cooperative victim" appears to often not matter. [/quote]

You have this all so backwards.  What about the young gentleman who now stands accused of this so-called crime?

Why wasn’t he provided with wrap around services? Why should his life be ruined now too??[/quote]

I hope this is sarcasm.  Hard to tell on this board.  [/quote]

Lol, that it is.

Wrap around services do not compel participation. They are voluntary. A feature of mental illness and addiction for many is to not understand that you have a problem. For a person who shot one father in the head (still hanging on) and killed another father of 2 young girls WHO HAD HANDED OVER HIS KEYS, which voluntary services would have made him Mr. Rogers, PP. Please enlighten us all. And what if he was not mentally ill but just someone who did not value human life? What services for that issue?

The genuflecting to "services" seems to be part of the new religion, despite the lack of grounding in the reality of the human condition. DC spends a staggering sum on "services" without much of a payoff thus far. Of course the NGOs are all feeding at the trough and making sure problems do not improve, as they have in Baltimore. [/quote]

Those wraparound services are not compelling. If they were, people would jump at the chance to have them. This is a failure of the government to provide the services that people want and need.[/quote]

By definition addicts, the mentally ill and the criminal resist change. [/quote]

Because you are not giving them a reason to change other than the cudgel.[/quote]

Educate yourself, low information poster. This fact re: addicts and the mentally ill may not be in your scripted talking points

https://namiwc.org/2021/08/26/anosognosia-when-people-dont-know-they-are-ill/

Societies require order and basic safety, as does human psychology. LE is a primary duty of governments, one that USAO, AG (quite directly!) and the Council who write the laws have rejected. [/quote]

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