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  The entire county of LA*
context: Adams said it was a myth that first responders can only involuntarily commit those who displayed an “overt act” showing they may be suicidal, violent or a danger to others, CNN previously reported. Instead, he said the law allowed first responders to involuntarily commit those who cannot meet their own “basic human needs” – a lower bar.
  
  So is there going to be more funding for mental health treatment or are the people just going to be locked in a cell and increase the police's resentment towards the mentally ill by forcing them into the role of healthcare providers and spending their budget on holding the mentally ill until an actual treatment center has an 'bed' for them? >
  
  We absolutely need quality long term psychiatric facilities across the United States. >
  
  We do, and we're unwilling to pay for them. That's a brick wall that hasn't budged in decades.
  Law enforcement has been saying for over twenty years that it is a problem that we can't arrest our way out of. 
  Most of the state "charity" hospitals are gone, thanks to the Republicans' beloved privatization. Private hospitals don't want these patients. It's too hard to get the state to reimburse them. >
  
  I was in downtown Los Angeles today and there was a barefoot woman, completely out of it, and the only help she was getting was a security guard gently ushering her away from where the market was. Let's just start the dystopian movie already >
  
  Downtown L.A. IS the dystopian movie.