Lives may be changed, but the collateral damage and by blow from the changed is what is intolerable.  When one person hears voices in his head that tell him its OK to beat another hapless person to death, how much fear and loathing sticks to that Gospel Mission?  Fencing off the overpass is not a solution, that solution must come much more quickly.  Get rid of the reputation of Everett as a Mecca for these people, and stop the self congratulatory display of well fed suits parading through a few beds and a Yoga room, as Seattle has recently done.