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"He made similar decisions while he was the governor of California, releasing more than half of the state’s mental hospital patients and passing a law that abolished involuntary hospitalization of people struggling with mental illness. This started a national trend of de-institutionalization."
End the inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of persons with mental health disorders, developmental disabilities, and chronic alcoholism, and to eliminate legal disabilities
Provide prompt evaluation and treatment of persons with mental health disorders or impaired by chronic alcoholism
Guarantee and protect public safety
Safeguard individual rights through judicial review
Provide individualized treatment, supervision, and placement services by a conservatorship program for persons who are gravely disabled
Encourage the full use of all existing agencies, professional personnel and public funds to accomplish these objectives and to prevent duplication of services and unnecessary expenditures
Protect persons with mental health disorders and developmental disabilities from criminal acts
law that abolished involuntary hospitalization of people struggling with mental illness
The release of the mentally impaired from institutions was also fostered by the legal system, who saw the mentally ill as a source of captive sympathy "clients" that could be used to sue anybody for the slightest infractions for secondary gain.
They released the gov and the institutions from liability by closing the facilities and releasing the inmates. Thanks, legal system. Overnight, the streets of California were filled with raving whackos.
The fourth and final ingredient was the passage of the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) act in 1967 by the California State legislature. The LPS act ended the inappropriate, indefinite and involuntary commitment of mentally disordered persons to institutions and encouraged the full use of existing agencies, personnel and funds to provide treatment, supervision and placement of gravely disabled persons. The authors of the LPS act envisioned an expanded system of community based mental health centers providing appropriate and timely support to those in need at a reduced cost to the State.
The LPS act was fully implemented into law in 1969. The release of thousands of individuals into the community from the State’s asylums and institutions began in 1970 and continued throughout the decade. One example vividly illustrates what it was like and what would happen in communities, large and small, across the State. Over 3800 mentally ill people were released from Agnews State Hospital on June 30, 1972 into the San Jose area. This resulted in the creation of a “mental health ghetto” overnight as various service providers converted vacant buildings and abandoned fraternity houses into board and care homes.Between 1969 and 1970, California counties would be required to provide mental health services to over 45,000 inpatients and 120,000 outpatients. While the authors of the legislation thought they were improving lives, what they actually did was release thousands of ill, confused and vulnerable individuals into communities that were simply unprepared to provide the services and support envisioned.
Feux Follets saysThis is less than 5,000 ?
Is that LA? Obviously not.
What is that even? According to the image meta data, that picture was taken on "12/13/06".
WTF?
They went from focussed liability to distributed liability. A lot harder to wring money from a large number of piddling half way houses scraping by on checks thrown at them by the government than Agnew's State Hospital. I remember the screamers and hallucinators winding up in Berkeley, to add to the already colorful milieu.
Total failure - worldwide event ! More coming. HeadSet saysFor you to dispute the <5000 in LA by using a crowd shot of DC to imply a huge crowd in LA hurts credibility.
Made a mistake, didn't catch the "LA" only in the title, sue me.
We have other posters here who post blatantly false stories and they get half dozen likes and the rest of the Trumpettes agree with them even though the whole story is completely false.
Sure you didn’t...
Feux Follets saysTotal failure - worldwide event ! More coming. HeadSet saysFor you to dispute the <5000 in LA by using a crowd shot of DC to imply a huge crowd in LA hurts credibility.
Made a mistake, didn't catch the "LA" only in the title, sue me.
We have other posters here who post blatantly false stories and they get half dozen likes and the rest of the Trumpettes agree with them even though the whole story is completely false.
FortWayne saysSure you didn’t...
Feux Follets saysTotal failure - worldwide event ! More coming. HeadSet saysFor you to dispute the <5000 in LA by using a crowd shot of DC to imply a huge crowd in LA hurts credibility.
Made a mistake, didn't catch the "LA" only in the title, sue me.
We have other posters here who post blatantly false stories and they get half dozen likes and the rest of the Trumpettes agree with them even though the whole story is completely false.
No big deal. Hopefully in the future he will know that CNN is fakenews
Easier I would think. Slum Lords rent those places to NGOs for a pretty penny; you can't charge rent on a slummy building to a State Hospital with it's own grounds and facilities. And instead of one economy-of-scale food and pharma contract, you now are paying more to a diverse bunch of suppliers.
Feux Follets saysThere are no shortages of people marching - none.
So what are they actually marching for?
I tried to watch a bit of the Communist News Network to see what the solutions these Special Snowflakes were proposing.
I saw a lot of video clips full of Tag lines, slogans, punch lines, false narratives, but I didn't hear a single one of these clueless kids actually spew a detailed suggestion on what they want done.
Quotes like "vote them out", "stop the violence", "defeat guns", "we are the change", "guns don't die, children do", "NRA kills", etc.
What the Fuck.. Nothing but brainwashed Zombies.
Libbies, please help here, what exact solutions are the Blue team proposing, or are they just continuing to bitch, without any remedy?
Crowded Street.
FortWayne saysLeft wing propaganda full swing.
Read Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart etc. today ?
No shortage at all of propaganda there as well - especially the first two sources. I scan them everyday so I know what will show up on here the same day or the day after.
99.99% of the time it's a slam dunk - one or more will show up with one or more of the attention grabbing click bait headlines.
FortWayne saysLeft wing propaganda full swing.
Read Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart etc. today ?
Report: March For Our Lives Crowd Count Well Below Expected And Initial Reports
The March for Our Lives was, of course, billed as a march by students affected by mass shootings for students who might, in the future, be affected by a mass shooting. But, it turns out, despite the hours spent bussing in kids from all over the country, and the attention lavished on a handful of student organizers, the vast majority — a whopping 90% — of marchers were middle-aged.
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone familiar with the anti-Trump "Resistance." After an initial wave of marches, the Resistance began to skew older and more female, and by early 2018, consisted almost entirely of Baby Boomer-aged women lecturing their kids and grandkids about the forthcoming nuclear holocaust on social media.
Although the kids provided a catalyst that catapulted the movement back into the headlines, the March for Our Lives had only a thin veneer of youth. Aside from the Parkland students that spoke, and the motivated, progressive kids who boarded buses to Washington, D.C. with only weeks lead time, the organizers were all legacy progressive organizations led by career progressive lobbyists.
And now, the data pans that out. According to a scientific survey taken during the March itself by researchers associated with The Washington Post and who have tracked the anti-Trump "Resistance" since it began the night after the election in 2016, the same people just keep showing up at everything.
The March for Our Lives was 70% women. Nearly three quarters of the marchers — 72% — had a bachelor's degree or higher level of graduate education, putting them well into the category of "leftist elite."
Most importantly though, less than 10% of marchers were under the age of 18, even though the march was clearly supposed to be for and about high school aged children. Of those adults attending the march who were over the age of 18, the average age was 49 years old — well within the realm of "Baby Boomer."
And the vast majority were career agitators: only about a quarter of marchers had "never protested before."
It would be hoped that if someone makes a post they were honest enough to now that it's true from the start.
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“Well kids get up much later on weekends!”
LOL
Maybe kids are less likely to support something if it doesn’t mean they can cut classes.
Idiots.