> thing that would have been really helpful here would be to have one central dossier on this individual that encompassed all of their different negative interactions with law enforcement, their military discharge, etc. - but that very quickly gets into a level of big brother that I am uncomfortable with.

Yes. Let's not suppose some "system" would or could pick it up. What the individual needed was one reliable _person_ in their life, who loved him enough to guide him to getting help. Radical individualism plus social meida as a substitute for actual relationships is sowing bad seeds,