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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 …
It's patently obvious to everyone that releasing a violently mentally ill offender is unjustifiable. Taking 7 tweets to hand-wave about a vague general lack of services will not placate a public who would like to know what the >$10B city budget is for, if not preventing this.
The cynical take: there's a distributed & diluted sense of responsibility for our safety, the public's malaise implies that heads won't roll until this individual kills someone, & the next victim will more likely than not be homeless herself & unlikely to draw so much attention.
@GeorgeGascon isn't just hand waving. He did argue for confinement of the mentally ill defendant.
The DA does not have authority over the city or state budget, the Bd Supes / City Council / Mayor has that power in SF.
His 7 tweets appropriately request more mental beds.
It seems like drugs were probably a significant factor. Limiting drug use in San Francisco would be hard and a certain proportion of users are going to become irrational and violent. I'm not against trying but more psych beds at SF General won't do it.
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