> which can’t be fixed by resources, but who aren’t necessarily just “bad guys”. You're correct, the problem is certainly mosaic and does not fall into a binar

> which can’t be fixed by resources, but who aren’t necessarily just “bad guys”. You're correct, the problem is certainly mosaic and does not fall into a binary "good guy" vs. "bad guy" ... and I'll never understand our nation and its response to long-term mental health facilities that were cesspool levels of bad. Instead of rebuilding them and reforming them, we just did away with them in their entirety. Some strange blend of anti-tax Reaganite and bleeding-heart ACLU-led progressivism combined into creating a hell we all have to suffer, or at least those of us in cities. I have a soon-to-be FiL with a schizophrenic brother he cares for. The FiL is a man of means, and purchased a home for his brother many years ago in a nice neighborhood. He has family to take him to all appointments, address all of his needs... yet in spite of his absolutely ideal condition he is a menace to his community and would be on the streets were it not for this brotherly love. The standard behaviors, pacing around in the neighborhood muttering to himself, smoking crack, and just general nuisance behaviors. He has accidentally burned down two of his homes through smoking / sleeping in bed but miraculously survived both incidents. This is a real issue, but a fractional amount, and orthogonal to the issue of the societal drop-outs that are mentally sound, capable of contributing, but choose the path of the drop-out and burn-out. We could solve that problem, we just don't.