On: Seattle Faces Backlash After Easing on Crimes Involving Mental Illness

[dmix]

The article mentions those mental health facilities were shut down in the 1980s.

I guess you mean some better modern version of them deserves more funding?

[DubiousPusher → dmix]

Yes but what I really mean is that if people are in crisis we've already failed. We have to create support networks that keep people out of crisis.

Lifting people out of crisis is tremendously difficult and I actually don't know how we deal with the number of people we have in crisis now.