Regarding the food item from Whole Foods, I doubt that she needed to shoplift in order to eat. Even if she did, there are certainly cheaper and more accessible

Regarding the food item from Whole Foods, I doubt that she needed to shoplift in order to eat. Even if she did, there are certainly cheaper and more accessible places to shoplift than Whole Foods. This is not Bourbon Restoration France. In my experience, when a crazy person gets the urge to take someone else's thing, then that person is not thinking, "Oh, it's theirs, hands off." The crazy person is just acting out the urges, and the lady was genuinely surprised that the police officers would have a problem with what she was doing. I don't think the article was proposing ankle bracelets for everyone. That was just one solution that worked for some of Mr. Dart's patients. Incidentally, how messed up is it, that the sheriff is in charge of creating a decent home for the mentally ill in his district. Those of us who deal with the marginally criminally insane, know that the system is just not set up to handle them. These people need adult supervision, and the social service just throws them into the street, to be arrested and put in jail every time.