It wasn't "Reagan" it was the 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in mental health law ruling that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members …
It wasn't "Reagan" it was the 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in mental health law ruling that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends. The state mental hospitals were still operating under Reagan, but once this terrible SC decision went into law, it essentially closed the institutions.
Thank you, I'm so sick of liberals blaming any and every social ill on something Reagan did 40 years ago. The Democrats have been in power multiple times in the intervening years and could have rectified it if they chose. Maybe there's blame to go around, but ultimately it was these terrible court decisions (resulting from lawsuits by ACLU and the like) that brought us to where we are now. And the ultimate irony is that these people ARE, evidently, a danger to themselves and others, as we are seeing every day. They are only nondangerous on the outside IF they take their medication as they're supposed to, which they don't. And most don't actually have "willing and responsible family members" to look after them, or if they do, they are helpless to do so as described in this essay.
It wasn't "Reagan" it was the 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in mental health law ruling that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends. The state mental hospitals were still operating under Reagan, but once this terrible SC decision went into law, it essentially closed the institutions.
Thank you, I'm so sick of liberals blaming any and every social ill on something Reagan did 40 years ago. The Democrats have been in power multiple times in the intervening years and could have rectified it if they chose. Maybe there's blame to go around, but ultimately it was these terrible court decisions (resulting from lawsuits by ACLU and the like) that brought us to where we are now. And the ultimate irony is that these people ARE, evidently, a danger to themselves and others, as we are seeing every day. They are only nondangerous on the outside IF they take their medication as they're supposed to, which they don't. And most don't actually have "willing and responsible family members" to look after them, or if they do, they are helpless to do so as described in this essay.