Put a spotlight on it. Yeah right. Put a spotlight on it to NIMBYs who want all those "dirty drug addict homeless" out of their neighborhoods but don't want to do anything about actually helping anyone on the streets.
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Here in Kansas City I used to see the occasional dude at a corner with a cardboard sign. Now as I drive around all day(its my job) I see probably 15 a day minimum.
Notice that most of them appear to be older. This is because many people don't have retirement savings anymore and the amount they get from social security has been whittled down to putting them well below the poverty line, so they end up on the streets.
And those are just the ones Kansas didn't put on a bus to California
We really need to strengthen the ability to get folks civilly committed.
If you're batshit crazy and, because of that, you're on the streets causing problems for folks... Then we should be able to get your ass medicated.
Not saying we need to lock them up forever necessarily, but at some point I'm fine with 'you get to take meds forever, sorry you had a bad roll of the genetic dice. Hey, it's better than killing you?'