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A comment on SF's crime debate turns nasty. Parent comment

Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by prepend on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @07:58AM (#27760066)
> The root cause being the federal laws governing involuntary committal for mental healthcare and lack of federal resources for mental healthcare which is super pricy for obvious reasons.

I do think this is the root cause of the shoplifting examples in the article. Stealing handbags from Niemen Marcus is, I think, unrelated to mental health issues.

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Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by mc32 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:00AM (#27760088)
Correct.

These people know that you don’t do that in DC without consequences, so they go up to SF.

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Re:SF's crime debate turns nasty by lotsofpulp on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:02AM (#27760107)
I know, but that is the pendulum swinging too far trying to correct for perceived prejudices by the police/judicial system. Which I think are rooted in expecting police to be able to deal with mental health issues as if they have the tools to address the crisis.
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