Help ones in need to get healthy but don't ignore existing healthy people. They are humans too and have rights.

Yes, it's such a half-baked approach. I understand not wanting to just incarcerate a bunch of people who clearly need mental health intervention (and the state of incarceration in DC is horrible and makes everything worse -- mental health, physical health, everything -- for inmates). BUT the answer is not just compassionate release. We have to actually help these people and we need to have programs that provide them with the support they need while ALSO protecting the rest of the population.

It's the same with arguments for more crime prevention and less prosecution. Okay IF you actually fund and build up the crime prevention programs and they work, and then reduce prosecution. But everyone wants to reduce prosecution first. So we just... do nothing? No, this doesn't make sense. We have to protect people.

Anonymous wrote:Always having to worry about your physical safety and your material possessions takes toll on physical and mental health of every resident and incoming daily commuters as well.

+1 can't wait to move out of the city. 40+ years of this kind of stress is enough.

Always having to worry about your physical safety and your material possessions takes toll on physical and mental health of every resident and incoming daily commuters as well.

Are we causing a huge mental health crisis by releasing mentally disturbed violent people without recovery? Is it healthy to make everyone else scared of becoming a victim????!!!!