WhittyMike ن

Any mental health initiative without a significant involuntary commitment component is doomed to failure. Our biggest issue isn’t that mental health care doesn’t exist in this city, it’s that the people who require it can just opt out no matter how dangerous they are to themselves or others. Progressives continue their refusal to accept the very basic fact that some people just need to be removed from the population long-term, and nearly all our public safety issues can be solved by doing so. Instead they’re fully committed to the decarceration fantasy and construct ever more elaborate and expensive ways to fail at solving problems that already have very simple solutions. Creating an entirely new city bureaucracy to show up and ask crazy people if they want mental health support on an entirely voluntary basis is hilariously dumb. Of course that doesn’t matter to them, and this department will be stood up and cost a billion dollars or whatever, and it will do no practical good but it will definitely funnel millions into progressive nonprofits for support services and training and equity nonsense, and after a year or two and probably several deaths they’ll fabricate some BS report about how hugely successful the department has been. Get the mentally ill off the street and into long-term institutional care even if they don’t want it. That’s the only solution.