Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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.

They requested that he not be released? That’s not the DA’s role.https://twitter.com/maxxszabo/status/1161814822830272514?s=21 …

"distributed & diluted sense of responsibility"

so... the state should just be able to incarcerate people without any kind of process? what is your alternative?

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.

I'm not sure how to respond to the fact that you clearly didn't understand what the DA said, which is that they advocated against releasing this person (but also simultaneously want to educate the public that jail isn't the solution to mental health issues.)

So what if the DA advocated for it? Ultimately, the guy wasn't held, and he is clearly a danger to the public.