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Originally Posted by blankall
The issue is when do you forcefully confine people who don't want to be confined? How do you predict who's going to be dangerous before they actually are dangerous?
It's always a balancing of civil liberties vs. public safety. I think we are likely to see a push towards the public safety side of things soon. This wasn't the only recent high profile incident in Vancouver either, although the one with the most horrendous outcome.
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Personally I would like to see a situation where we are able to confine people often for short periods of time, a very low bar to place someone in care for a couple of weeks, a large facility where they could easily self admit after their few weeks are up for further care or go back into the community and get picked up again a few weeks later
Mental health, like foster care, is bed dependent, if you dont have enough beds then the kind of behavior that gets ignored, the risk you present gets higher and higher, we need enough beds that anyone acting a bit weird and erratic gets taken in and assessed not just the ones that are waving a carving knife about in the nude wearing a tinfoil hat