This thread is a bizarre read. The challenges involved with humanely detaining violent offenders with severe mental illness, ordering & compelling treatment, etc., are not new. SF is a very rich city within a very rich state with exceptionally strong public services, inc medical.https://twitter.com/GeorgeGascon/status/1162372342359527424 …
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Also, it's state law that prevents compulsory treatment, not local.https://twitter.com/maxxszabo/status/1162149760645513217 …
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Read Lanterman Petris Short -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80%93Short_Act … When it passed, California voters were supposed to substantially fund community-based mental health centers to replace state mental institutions. Shocker: they didn't.
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Yes, and I'm not going to keep arguing with someone who would prefer to build a strawman than to listen and respond to the human being in front of them. I find his comments surreal, not his actions as DA.
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have you... been paying attention to the DA's race at all? Gascon is stepping down. He's not going to be DA next year. Do you even understand what direction the conversation is trending in between Chesa Boudin and Suzy Loftus?
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it’s not okay, which is why we argued against his being released. We don’t have authority to make pretrial release decisions.