Posted by Jack
Another stabbing marks number 41 for the year by my count. This time it was some unhinged female that attacked a citizen for absolutely no reason. She scrreaming at him and then stabbed the poor guy. This psycho was spotted by the police after the incident and she’s now locked up.
Unfortunately for us this is just another case of a crazy transient that some how found their way to good ol Chico,the North State’s Home for the Homeless. Now we’ll have to pay to keep her in jail for a very long time and with all her medical needs this could be a very big bill for the taxpayers.
I’m pretty sure this is the same female I saw in the Plaza last Sunday. She was standing on the corner all alone, arguing with herself. Why she wasn’t taken into custody then is a mystery? Section 51-50 of the Welfare and Institutions Code says police can place a 72 hour hold on anyone unable to care for their safety or the safety of others. I think it’s a reasonable assumption that a person having an argument all by themselves falls into the 51-50 category!
But, here’s the kicker! Did you know that we don’t even have a lock-down mental health facility? That means dangerous people like the woman above can be picked up on a 51-50 hold and taken in for observation, but if they decide to walk away there’s nothing to stop them.
Despite that brief flurry of ticketing, the bums, with all their mental problems are still coming here. Great situation, eh, one that was shall surely pay for one way or the other, either through injury, damage or money.
She needs mental health help. Instead they take away any meds in the jails beat them and release them
Yes she does, and those “generally over the top” statements you make have some awareness issues as well.
That last sentence of yours is total disinformation.
Jack, there is NO long-term psychiatric residental treatment in the North State. None. Your precious private industry does not find it profitable.
And didn’t I tell you that I’ve lost all patience for this sort of moaning … unless you’ve got a plan. Locking her up for three days is not a plan.
Libby: Okay, here’s my plan, you (meaning transients with mental problems) get treated in the last place where you can show residence for 5 years.
Logic: This would prevent other communities from dumping. That is, buying bus tickets for crazies and sending them to places like Chico. One mental patient could cost us upwards of $100,000 a year.
It’s a matter of matching our established tax base with the actual local needs! Simply put… We can’t afford to take care of people from outside our own community without some serious State reimbursement. And as a state, we can’t afford to take other states crazies without 100% cost of care reimbursement, so Oklahoma, Ark. Kansas, et al, can’t just send their crazies to CA. This is a big problem and it’s one that needs to solved sooner than later. It’s costing us billions, not to mention lives to ignore the problem. Until our liberal democrats in the CA legislature start addressing it sincerely, little towns like Chico, with limited resources, can ill afford to take on the burdens from outside their area. The tax base was designed to accommodate the population at hand, a sudden surge migrant indigents can easily overwhelm a local system.
Now Libby, lets talk about that 3 hold. For arguments sake, lets say the woman I saw and the stabber were one in the same. Had she been taken in on a 72 hour hold she would have been placed back on her anti-psychotic medication so she could once again be functional. A stabbing would have been prevented and a lengthy prison term would have been avoided with all the associated medical costs. So so don’t poo-poo the value of a 72 hour interdiction. It’s not the solution to long term needs and nobody here is saying that, but it has it’s place.
Harold that has happened in Norcal FACT. They usually beat the men over women and That is FACT
I have heard it direct from people who got DUI’s and other stupid offenses to which they were jailed.
Wake Up
Libby: “Your precious private industry does not find it profitable.”
Or laws and regulations prevent the viability of such a facility!
How many times a day do you use or experience support, health, satisfaction or comfort by something created and made in the private sector?
How do you propose people should support their families if not by engaging in employment and production…from which they profit?
How do you justify the profit you receive from the work you do with such an attitude?
What is evil about someone getting wealthy from a product he offers the public and they purchase freely at a price they are willing to pay?
The alternative you propose rewards those who do nothing and punishes those who produce…how do you justify that as a preferable system?
Dewey, have you ever seen medications that are dispensed in our county jail? They have a full time nurse to do it and that amount of meds is staggering. Mental patients gets meds and they do not get beaten! That is pure BS.
I rarely say this to a poster, but I believe you deliberately provide disinformation and you have no credibility here. (I agree with Harold. )
Dewey, You seem to affiliate yourself with a very disorderly crowd ,what with all your bona fide, validated and otherwise incontestable first hand verbal recounting of jailer abuse from such reliable, yet spurious sources .
Interesting, at least you didn’t blame it on the Tea Party this time, YET!
Gee Dewey, wonder what the drunks did to provoke the officers?
Usually they are too drunk to remember that part and it often includes violence.
Anyone that would drive under the influence has no concern for the fact that he’s driving with the enhanced potential to kill and maim other human beings.
A good way to avoid being handled roughly is to avoid being arrested. Once arrested, cooperate…simple as that, my friend.
Ah, but “Oklahoma, Ark. Kansas,” are the epitome of the small state government you admire. Refusing to provide services is how they maintain their small state governments. And you are always saying that you want to have a small state government, that does not provide services, a la Jefferson.
So what, really, do you want to do with these people?
Libby those states provide services they just don’t get ridiculous about it! One example:
Oklahoma Department of Human Services
For heavens sake…get a grip.
Post scripts the nurse dispenses, the night time guards have been seen taking them away. I know that for a fact. It happens.
Like I said I have a friend who made the mistake driving with 3 beers in him and went to jail. Spent 3 days cause he spouted off at them. It Happens
How many times a day do you use or experience support, health, satisfaction or comfort by something created and made in the private sector?
The private sector? There is a big difference between family owned business and Equity owned wall street companies.
I get hurt daily by wall street
Dewey: “There is a big difference between family owned business and Equity owned wall street companies.”
What is it?
“I get hurt daily by wall street”
How?
Re: #3 Libby : “Jack, there is NO long-term psychiatric residental treatment in the North State. None.”
And clearly none where Libby lives.