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Do you have a mentally ill child? If not, then I don’t think you have any idea what you are talking about. You assume that if the person had access “to the right treatment” it would have made all the difference. Not a chance. There is a reason treatment centers do not publish their success rates. They would be so abysmally small that no one would spend the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to send someone there. Do you know that even parents that are privately paying for inpatient treatment paid for in advance can’t not only keep their child in treatment but can’t be notified when they leave?

This has nothing to do with racism but with liberals who have no idea what they were doing when they changed the rules about keeping mentally ill people someplace where they can’t hurt themselves or other people.

We are heading to another city tonight to take care of our daughter’s children because she once again tried to commit suicide so her 11 year old daughter would come home to find her dead and her 3 month and 15 month siblings alone on their own. This person should not be allowed out on the street but I can guarantee you she will be released from the psych hospital in a couple days and if not she will give her 48 hr notice and be out. She will be very apologetic and cry for forgiveness. That may convince someone who hasn’t been dealing with this for the 25 years, Someone will tell us why don’t you get custody, etc, etc. You don’t know what the laws are.

If you think that Jordan Neely would not have eventually killed someone or permanently injured someone this time or the next time then you are delusional. Anyone willing to take action in a liberal city where they knew there would be a big chance of them being crucified is brave and should be lauded for protecting the innocent. Jordan Neely was not the innocent person in this scenario. Until the Democrats quit using human tragedies to push for power there will be lots more tragedies like this. I. Could give hours of lectures of the problems with laws and DHS but suffice it to say - you probably don’t know what you are talking about. What should be isn’t what it is.

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I'm a native New Yorker of a certain age who remembers the homelessness crisis, which was Hollywood's social justice cause du moment in the late 80s and 90s. Whoopi and Robin William's Comic Relief was going strong; London even had a magazine called The Big Issue — that's how big it was.

It got to the point where you couldn't take a ride from uptown to downtown without having at least 3 well-fed guys, none of them mentally ill, who'd never spent a night on the street, crashing through the doors and blaring out a rote, robotic tale of woe, a litany of troubles both personal and familial. As my father pointed out, in those days you could get three square meals a day at 17 locations around Manhattan alone. For whatever reason, that world-crushing crisis died down.

I now live in LA. I ride a bike around West Hollywood and Hollywood — it's a different LA than what you experience driving. This is also a different kind of homelessness than the previous one: it feels like it's 95% drug-driven; the meth + fentanyl combo is alluring for people with addictive personalities. It also induces psychosis. Meth plays a huge role in QAnon-type conspiracies. When I was watching the Jan 6 insurrectionists storm the Capitol I muttered to myself, "Meth." It turns out the cause of death of one of the people who died was meth-related.

Every day I see encounters outside my gym on Hollywood Boulevard with homeless people screaming their heads off. About three days ago there was a heartbreaking encounter between 6 harried law enforcement officials and paramedics trying to load a meth-deranged Black guy onto a gurney to take him to the hospital. He was absolutely convinced they were trying to kill him, begging for his life. That wasn't the first time I'd seen Black guys with meth-induced psychosis interpreting a perfectly benign situation between the police and paramedics as being life-threatening.

I blame that on modern antiracism/BLM's opportunistic distortion of the truth, making it seem like Black men are being slaughtered randomly by law enforcement, which is simply not the case. Still, for those rare occasions that it happens: What are you doing that you're in the crosshairs of a cop wearing a body cam, his job and his freedom on the line if he fires, who has already exhausted several levels of protocols to get you to stand down, and is now resorting to the final option?

The social justice lies about this are most damaging to the people they purport to protect. But "race entrepreneurs," as Dr. Loury called race hustlers the other day, don't care, as long as that outrage cash keeps flowing.

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