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I've posted this a few times, but with a very liberal Feinstein replacement, Art Agnos, as mayor of SF, homelessness exploded. Although it is terrible now, back in the late '80's there were very tolerated homeless camps adjacent to city hall and the plaza across the street. Market Street was littered with homeless and agressive panhandlers. Toursim was negatively affected. Finally, merchants had enough and a former chief of police, Frank Jordan, replaced Agnos. Somehow the homeless then disappeared.
Who ended all of the mental hospitals and why?JFK when he signed his last piece of legislation on 10/31/63, The Community Mental Health Act, got the ball rolling. He and his family were doing penance for their father Joe, Sr. who had had their mentally disturbed oldest sister Rosemary lobotomized in 1941 before she got herself pregnant by some good for nothing and brought shame on the family. She was the prettiest of the Kennedy girls and they tried to keep a short leash on her, but as she got into her 20's she would sometimes go out on her own and it was only a matter of time before disaster. The lobotomy was a failure and totally destroyed her mind. She had to be hospitalized for the rest of her life until her death in 2005. It was the biggest blot on the Kenned family name and caused them more trauma even than JFK's assassination. It's ironic that the word "Community" is part of the name because the Federal government took over control of mental hospitals from the states. The idea was to have community housing where former patients could live and receive their medication until they "got back on their feet". This never materialized and as mentioned before, the ever expanding infatuation with rights stymied society from having a modicum of control over their behavior. That's why law enforcement usually wound of being the default encounter that brought them under control. Law enforcement hadn't signed up to render psychiatric treatment and many times tragedies occurred. Fifty or 60 years ago, maybe 1% of jail inmates were mentally ill, today it's over 10%.
Whatever happened to mental hospitals?
Who ended all of the mental hospitals and why?
Involuntary commitment can also be used for drug/alcohol abuse etc.
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