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August 26, 2023
Bring Back The Asylums: Half The Homeless And Drug Addicted Populations Have At Least One Mental Illness - We Should Be Taking Care Of Americans Rather Than Spending Trillions On Ukraine, Foreign Aid And Illegals
As we watch our city streets become open drug dens, with "zombified" men and women openly shooting up drugs in public, and soft on crime policies leaving criminals on the street to continue to commit crimes, and prosecutors backed by money from George Soros groups refusing to bring charges against those committing crimes, we take note of a few points.
• With deinstitutionalization (shutting down all insane asylums), crimes rose exponentially.
• Later, as bleeding hearts decried the "abuse" of locking away criminals in prisons, and the insidious liberal policies that followed, accurate statistics on crime became impossible, because a significant number of crimes went unaddressed and uncharged.
• The "statistics" being used to claim overall crime is down, ignores the in your face crimes being committed, from theft to looting to openly doing drugs in the streets, because less are being arrested, charged, and prosecuted.
The downfall of our society as a whole began when the same type of bleeding hearts that created asylums to begin with, then decided they needed to be shut down, and then decided that prisons were to harsh a punishment for criminals.
As the chart above shows, in 1960, before the phase of deinstitutionalization began, crime was at a low point. Insane asylums began receiving bad press due the conditions in the underfunded facilities, and the closures started, but didn't hit full stride until around the 1990s.
Notice how in the early 1990s crime peaked, and then started decreasing again.
While President Bill Clinton made many mistakes, understanding that if he had any chance of reelection by 1996, he had to do something about the crime peak, so he signed the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law.
The crime bill in question is the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, an enormous $30bn (£21bn) package that was the largest crime-control bill in US history. Critics say the bill decimated communities of color and accelerated mass incarceration. Proponents say it contributed to the precipitous decline in violent crime in the US that began in the mid-1990s.
Basically Clinton replaced insane asylums with prisons, and with the mentally ill off the streets again, the crime rates went down.
Which brings us to Barack Obama, who decided that mass incarceration was a problem, so he took actions that helped lead us to where we are today. Obama increased commutations, ended federal financial subsidization of mass incarceration, and he banned the question that asked applicants to disclose whether they’ve been convicted of a crime on applications for federal employment.
So once again the criminals and/or mentally ill, were right back in the streets.
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HOW IT BEGAN.........
An excellent piece from 2009 titled "From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums," offers us details and how the rise of "moral" treatment, ended up in overcrowded asylums, and became the stereotypical zombie wards with drugged drooling men and women in front of televisions.
But asylums started out as philanthropic dreams, rather than psychiatric nightmares. The concept was born in the mid-1800s, when socially minded citizens, dismayed by the often dismal lot of the mentally unstable, paid for dozens of institutions to be constructed for their care. By 1880, 139 had been built in the US.
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The intention was for the asylums to be places of refuge – sanctuaries where patients' disorders were recognized and allowed for. Their founders hoped that the mentally ill could be cured by providing them with a calming environment, fresh air, a varied diet, exercise and jobs in the asylum's workshops or farm – an approach known as "moral treatment".
By the end of the 19th century, these asylums became communities, little towns, they had bowling alleys, salons, and they could visit theaters and cafes.
The problem was the "socially minded citizens" that helped create the asylums basically forgot all about them, and funds dwindled even as more people were places in the institutions. These asylums became "bywords for squalor and negligence, and often run by inept, corrupt or sadistic bureaucrats."
So, new laws and regulations were passed, disallowing the patients to work within, and when certain patient treatments were no longer allowed, patients were then basically put on the street.
Care in the community offered the remaining state hospitals relief from their financial pressures, but these were renewed in the 1970s, when laws were passed establishing minimum standards of care and barring patients from working. These measures were intended to protect patients' rights, but the cost of complying with them was staggering. Vast areas of land were sold to raise funds and the institutions started to decay.
Patients who could not be treated in accordance with the new standards were simply released. Those who remained found themselves directionless, sometimes becoming the TV-addict zombies of popular imagination.
The end came soon for asylums.
By the 1980s, deinstitutionalization was in full swing, with patients being returned to their communities in large numbers. The remaining institutions were shut down, with their grounds sold off and buildings demolished.
But by the 1990s it became clear that the rapid closing of the asylums had been a mistake. Not enough clinics and half-way houses had been set up to ease the transition, and the community care centers were struggling to cope.
Enter the beginning of an increased homelessness. Drugs addicts, most with psychological issues, left on the streets to shoot up, snort or smoke drugs without being arrested.
Philadelphia, PA
THIS IS AMERICA NOW.....
In 1960-1980, could any of us imagined seeing what we are seeing on the streets today?
People living under bridges.
People shooting up drugs in broad daylight.
Kensington, PA
Homeless encampments lining the sidewalks.
Boston, MA.
Tent cities for the homeless.
San Francisco, CA
Unknown state
Seattle, WA
Akron,OH
Need I show more?
While the following study is older than I would like (2015), it is one of the most comprehensive studies done to date on percentages of homeless that have mental illnesses.
In January 2015, the most extensive survey ever undertaken found 564,708 people were homeless on a given night in the United States. Depending on the age group in question, and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25 percent of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. Forty-five percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness. More would be labeled homeless if these were annual counts rather than point-in-time counts.
So nearly half of those that are homeless had at least one mental illness.
Eight-in-a-half years later, with drugs like fentanyl, tranq, and a number of other "zombie" drugs, that number is undoubtedly much higher.
Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts
BOTTOM LINE
With proper oversight, and using the billions we send to Ukraine, and what we spend on mass incarceration, since those numbers rose exponentially after the asylums were shut down, and the billions if not trillions we spend on foreign aid, there is more than enough money to renovate and modernize existing, abandoned asylums, while building new ones, at least half of the homeless issue would be dealt with, while decreasing the amount of people in prison.
A win/win.
The oversight is important because had the original institutions not been forgotten by those social justice warriors aka "socially minded citizens" that initially funded them, allowing for the abuse that arose from a lack of oversight, whole communities of the mentally ill, interspersed with mental health professionals, could give the mentally ill, drug addicted, and homeless, a chance to grow, work, have a roof over their heads, food on the table, and adequate medical care.
Bottom line here is that it is time to bring back the asylums, get rid of the open air drug markets, the tent cities, and the homeless problem would be a lot easier to deal with.
It is time to start taking care of Americans rather than spending trillions on foreigners.
Below we see what many American cities look like.
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