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Originally Posted by RubyCamaro

Here here! Mandatory treatment underwhich some prepetrators or seriously mentally unstable/dangerous individualy are released is a total joke and is rarely ever enforced at least in areas I am aware of. Far too many unstable folks are allowed to roam our streets untreated because they have the "right" to choose whether or not to be treated, yet we apparently do not have the right to be safe in our own communities because of their "rights". The same for dangerous criminals who are either found "innocent" due to legal tecnicalities regarding their rights regardless of the rights of the larger community, or who get a slap on the wrist sentence or are released early due to "good behavior" or prison overcrowding. This also includes perpetrators of child abuse and domestic violence who are some of the most dangerous folks among us. I know this is getting rather political but moderators, please in light of the situation, be a bit tollerant. We finally need to get a clue and build sufficient prisons and psychiatric hospitals to house dangerous individuals for the safety of our society and then change/enforce laws to keep them there. Then provide mental health treatment and enforce mandatory treatment programs for those who can be safely maintained in the community with treatment. As a mental health therapist for the past nearly 30 years I see daily how unsafe we all are daily and are totaly obvlious to it. It is actually a miracle there are not more such tragedies. Okay. Rant over. We now return to our regularly scheduled programing.

Good morning crew. HAGD

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