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.
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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.
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Maxwell Szabo
They requested that he not be released? That’s not the DA’s role.https://twitter.com/maxxszabo/status/1161814822830272514?s=21 …
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"distributed & diluted sense of responsibility"
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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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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Maxwell Szabo
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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Interesting cite. But main thing is SF residents are paying for a basic service that many other cities deliver without issue. Internal bureaucratic reasons don’t matter. If a product doesn’t work, you may try fixing it but eventually you switch vendors. So too with cities.
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I agree — strongly — with broader concerns on both sides re: long-term involuntary commitment. But when we're discussing the apparent unsupervised release (initially, at least) of a person who certainly appears to be an ongoing threat to others, it's a callous redirection.
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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.