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Re:Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional by yodsanklai on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:47PM (#28333790)
Reading from HN, half of Americans are either in jail or homeless dealing with mental issues. Are there proper statistics to get a better assessment of the situation?
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Re:Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional by rufus_foreman on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:05PM (#28333944)
"If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners."

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

The list of countries by incarceration rate is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera....

About 5% of people in the US go to prison at some point, 9% for males, 16% for Hispanic males, and 29% for black males. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/Llgsfp.pdf

"About one-quarter of U.S. adults report having a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression or experiencing emotional distress. This is one of the highest rates among 11 high-income countries. ... The United States has some of the worst mental health–related outcomes, including the highest suicide rate and second-highest drug-related death rate."

--https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

And of course, "Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States".

-- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all...

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Re:Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional by nradov on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:55PM (#28333873)
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/

The Federal Government estimates that about 0.4% of Californians were homeless in 2020. From what I've seen on the streets the numbers are probably a little worse now.

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Re:Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional by yodsanklai on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:17PM (#28334044)
By comparison, France has 300 000 homeless persons [1], which is about 0.44%. It doesn't seem to be as big an issue here compared to California. Maybe homeless people are more concentrated in SF which makes the problem appear worse than in other countries?

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/11/15/la-fondati...

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Re:Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional by asdff on Saturday August 28, 2021 @12:56AM (#28335745)
LA county alone has like 100 thousand homeless people. That's the population of Burbank California.
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