CredibleSauce
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This rings true to me. I live in NYC and we also have people walking around who are clearly disturbed. (But it's not as if the city is suddenly dangerous, like some news outlets lead people to think!)
We need to come up with mental-health solutions. I do not have the answers and don't pretend to. But people who need help walking around the streets in agitation is not good for anyone. Like this witness described, you can see someone who is agitated and seems disturbed, but it's not illegal to be like that - so what are we supposed to do?
jmo
Interesting that in all of these recent high profile attacks the accused perp is a man and the victims are women and girls.
Mental health related or not it’s pretty telling - there are plenty of homeless and/or mentally ill women, they are a growing demographic in fact, but somehow they seem to be abstaining from attacking innocent members of the public in a high profile sense at the very least.
Look at the Bondi Junction attack earlier this year -Australian authorities say the stabbing was "mental health" related, but they believe Cauchi targeted women.
The youngest victim was a 9 month old baby girl (thankfully she survived - her mother didn’t).
Something has to be done about the sheer amount of demonstrably agitated individuals out in public who have clear violent interests or tendencies.. it’s not illegal to be mentally ill, or homeless, or interested in knives but the combination seems directly involved in a number of these attacks of late and I’m truly sick of reading the same story over and over when the warning signs were there from the start, while governments sit on their hands regarding mental health treatment accessibility and homelessness and frankly, male violence against women.