Suspect in Houston Texas Duputy Killing found mentally incompetent in 2012.

[5H3RD0G]

There are a lot of mental people nowadays acting very odd in buses, subways, events, make sure to be safe and keep away if they seem awkward.

 

[So Fresh]

This is happening in Holland now. A few years ago there where cutbacks on the health system. One of the police commissioners said in a few years we're gonna have a big problem with the mentaly ill at the streets in the big cities.

And what do you know, last year there as an experiment, and he was right. There are a lot more incidents wich involve 'crazy' people.

Well if Reagan did this 30 years ago.. you're gonna have a big problem.. all these time bombs ready to pop off

It's sad that with this kinda of cutbacks, the effects will only be notticable in the long run, and a lot of people don't think that far ahead. All they think is "yes, now we can pay less taxes"

 

[7437]

Yes, the president from 30 yrs ago is to blame for this incident.

No way that cutting spending on mental health could have long term effects, its just silly.

 

[James Keith]

Yes if only they had permanently locked away some dude without a trial over an assault ("deadly weapon" cited in the story being "his hands") none of this would have happened. Instead our failed system merely locked the dude up for six months without trial. We must dig deep into the very core and history of our legal system to come up with systemic changes might guarantee none of the millions of schizophrenics in the US can ever do a horrible crime again.

 

[oldshadow]

Remember when President Reagan enacted all of those cutbacks to the Mental hospitals across the U.S. and people praised it as a great "Cost saving measure" and no one had spun it back up?

Maybe you should do some research on the court cases that made it so hard to commit and hold people.

You can start here:

Wyatt v. Stickney

O'Connor v. Donaldson

and others.

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, this is what the court did that set up what se have today.

 

[Strychnine]

Yes, the president from 30 yrs ago is to blame for this incident.

"Remember when President Reagan enacted all of those cutbacks to the Mental hospitals across the U.S. and people praised it as a great "Cost saving measure" and no one had spun it back up?"

*Sigh*

 

[Strychnine]

Maybe you should do some research on the court cases that made it so hard to commit and hold people.

You can start here:

Wyatt v. Stickney

O'Connor v. Donaldson

and others.

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, this is what the court did that set up what se have today.

Yeah, I can see how closing down mental hospitals could lead to that.