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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What I find surreal isn't that the DA couldn't personally hold a violent offender, but that he's implying without *outright saying* that the state had nowhere to put him. It's remarkably tone deaf. Jail may be an improper place. Somewhere along my BART commute is worse.
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uh, isn't it the DA's job to prosecute people not operate the jail system itself? He's saying he requested to not release this guy and the judge didn't agree.
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so... the state should just be able to incarcerate people without any kind of process? what is your alternative?
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I'm not sure how to respond to this. Are you suggesting that we *don't* already evaluate and involuntarily hold people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others? Bail can and should be denied when their release would present an ongoing threat to the people around them.
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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.