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There are parallels here to healthcare-by-emergency-room versus actually having healthy people. It's obvious that we should commit people who wave around guns
by humanrebar 10y ago
There are parallels here to healthcare-by-emergency-room versus actually having healthy people.
It's obvious that we should commit people who wave around guns and think there are Martians in their teeth. But there are also homeless people who just get agitated, verbally abusive, and mildly violent on a semi-regular but certainly dysfunctional basis. How do we help them, and barring that, how do we protect others, including other people who live in the same shelters?
- surfmike 10y agoYes, I'd say having more social workers on the streets and shelters following up and offering care options for those who are mentally ill and dysfunctional would help the problem. But there's not really funding for that.
- mercer 10y agoI've heard a lot of stories from friends of mine who work in the field, and the picture they paint is that a big problem is bureaucracy/'managerial class'. It's a very similar and equally ugly picture that is painted by the friends I have in academia. What I find interesting (and tragic) is that it doesn't seem to primarily be about funding, but rather about the system that has grown around them, full of inefficiencies and 'false' measurement-based methodology.