The mentally ill need to be treated in a humane manner. Many are on the streets, so identifying individuals as mentally unstable and getting them into treatment is going to be difficult. Who is going to determine their mental stability?? Usually they are identified once a crime is committed and then they are incarcerated anyways. So ... depending on the crime ..... treatment and rehabilitation is necessary. I don't believe that is the protocol, I believe they are incarcerated, made to do their time and released.
The same protocol is used for drug offenders; they do their time and then let back out on the streets with no rehabilitation or treatment so it becomes and revolving door for the offenders.
It really is a sad state of affairs and one that will take a significant amount of work to make laws that can effectively deal with mental illness. Taking them off the streets and then throwing away the key to me is not an option.
For the mentally ill, I can see where Democrats would not want them to be snagged as inpatients. Especially after watching the screaming threats etc. presented as videos on 'X' and elsewhere. The TDS crowd (I'm being nice) is often similarly afflicted screaming or typing irrational threats at the world. These people need help, and if they are seeing a therapist, it isn't working or they are off their meds.
Of course, examining the behaviour, would mean examining the triggers, and that would indict the MSM and a herd of 'influencers' out there who are fomenting mindless hatred. I'm not sure we, as a country, could afford inpatient treatment for those afflicted with that Mass Formation Psychosis, and any attempt to round up the sufferers would be characterized (because of their apparent numbers) as some sort of concentration camps.
But for those who have already exhibited violent behaviour, well, that's a place to start, and the treatment has to be open ended, with follow up evaluations to ensure there is no relapse.Perhaps the prospect of indefinite committal would serve as a damper on their tendency to have violent and destructive tantrums.
Something essential for drug offenders (especially users) is to make a break with the user crowd they hung out with. Put back on the streets, no job, no place, no money, they have little option but to rely on family (if their family will even have them) or they end up crashing with the old crowd, likely still using. It's ridiculously difficult to stay clean in that environment, because for most, that's where they got messed up to begin with.
Some parole/rehab programs are similarly difficult, requiring the parolee to have a job, their own place, then scheduling parole meetings in the middle of their work day instead of working around that, and on short notice, almost as if the intent was for the person to fail. If they lose the job and can't pay rent, they end up running with the old crowd and, inevitably, back in lockup.
For those who genuinely want to get clean and change their life, it need not be made more difficult by the bureaucrats who are overseeing their programs.
