Subj : Re: AI actress Tilly Norw
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Oct 08 2025 08:46:23

>  When you look at mental health funding when compared to law
>  enforcement, it becomes apparent that we're letting people who need
>  serious help on the street and incarcerating them instead of treating
>  them. I want law prevention as well as law enforcement - fund
>  facilities for those people who're on the street because of mental
>  issues and you'll spend less on law enforcement and prisons. There are
>  police unions and privatized prisons that will take issue with that.

Not sure about the unions (since you are getting them off the street) but I
agree with the privatized prisons.  That should never have been allowed to
happen.  Things that make them money, and generate kickbacks for
politicians, are always going to come before what is good for the public
and the incarcerated.

>  MP> The fact that we don't anymore is not something I can squarely blame
>  MP> "capitalism" for.  The original argument to stop hospitalizing came
>  MP> from the side of the political spectrum not usually associated with
>  MP> being pro- capitalism. They had a belief that it was better to try
>  MP> mainstreaming the mentally ill, and doing other things to try changing
>  MP> their behavior, instead of keeping them locked away from the rest of
>  MP> society.  They didn't have much support for their idea until they
>  MP> started using the "but it will save the government money" argument to
>  MP> manipulate the other side into doing what they wanted.

>  That's true, but when you look at the political power of police unions
>  and the prison system, their solution is more police and more
>  incarcerated.

The more police are not doing a very good job of arresting them, and the
prisons are not doing a very good job of keeping them incarcerated. Otherwise
the problem wouldn't be "why are they on the streets?"


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