Yes.
When I became a police officer in 1972 I learned we had authority to arrest a person for "suspicion of dementia".
This was a law on the books in Ohio to protect the person suspected of being ill.
For instance: My partner & I took a call reporting a man down on hands & knees lapping water from a pot hole like a dog in the middle of the street.
Think he was off his bean? Yup.
That was the 1st but not the only time I used that law to help a sick person.
We had to arrest/cuff/transport to the e.r. where the person was evaluated by a doctor. If doc agreed with our "suspicion" the doc "pink slipped" the sick person to the State Mental facility 1.5 hrs. away from my town.
WE did the transport, waited to get the person admitted so the person could be examined & treated if need be. (they always did-most para skiz)
This was a long & boring, often dangerous, ordeal for the officers & something we all hated to do.
It did serve a purpose. Too bad the officers in Kali didn't have that law on the books.
By 1974 or 5 that law was taken off the books as the left thought it was
too expensive, too restrictive of the rights of the person, & so on.
We did NOT have mass shooting 45 years ago like we do in the past 45,
maybe 30 years.
No police officer could abuse that law because a doctor would have caught on pretty quick.
Now people diagnosed with boarderline personality disorder ( if I can't have you no one will because I'll kill you) & paranoid schizophrenics can walk into any retailer that sells guns & buy one/ammo, go on a shooting spree & make society pay the ultimate price.
Still the left wants even greater & more restrictive gun control laws.
Sadly, after tragedies, the knee jerk reaction is to agree that the evil gun did something awful.
Do we think that the people that were parents of the murdered children at SandyHook will ever understand that the shooter was menally ill & his mother bought him a gun, it wan't the guns doing! He shot his mum first.
Somewhere, somehow, politicians must tell the truth that seriously mentally ill people were once secure in a hospital like environment where they were treated for thier illness & society was protected from muderous sick people.
It's not palatable, it seems harsh, but is it better to let dangerously mentally ill walk around among us untill they decide murder is the best option for them?
When I became a police officer in 1972 I learned we had authority to arrest a person for "suspicion of dementia".
This was a law on the books in Ohio to protect the person suspected of being ill.
For instance: My partner & I took a call reporting a man down on hands & knees lapping water from a pot hole like a dog in the middle of the street.
Think he was off his bean? Yup.
That was the 1st but not the only time I used that law to help a sick person.
We had to arrest/cuff/transport to the e.r. where the person was evaluated by a doctor. If doc agreed with our "suspicion" the doc "pink slipped" the sick person to the State Mental facility 1.5 hrs. away from my town.
WE did the transport, waited to get the person admitted so the person could be examined & treated if need be. (they always did-most para skiz)
This was a long & boring, often dangerous, ordeal for the officers & something we all hated to do.
It did serve a purpose. Too bad the officers in Kali didn't have that law on the books.
By 1974 or 5 that law was taken off the books as the left thought it was
too expensive, too restrictive of the rights of the person, & so on.
We did NOT have mass shooting 45 years ago like we do in the past 45,
maybe 30 years.
No police officer could abuse that law because a doctor would have caught on pretty quick.
Now people diagnosed with boarderline personality disorder ( if I can't have you no one will because I'll kill you) & paranoid schizophrenics can walk into any retailer that sells guns & buy one/ammo, go on a shooting spree & make society pay the ultimate price.
Still the left wants even greater & more restrictive gun control laws.
Sadly, after tragedies, the knee jerk reaction is to agree that the evil gun did something awful.
Do we think that the people that were parents of the murdered children at SandyHook will ever understand that the shooter was menally ill & his mother bought him a gun, it wan't the guns doing! He shot his mum first.
Somewhere, somehow, politicians must tell the truth that seriously mentally ill people were once secure in a hospital like environment where they were treated for thier illness & society was protected from muderous sick people.
It's not palatable, it seems harsh, but is it better to let dangerously mentally ill walk around among us untill they decide murder is the best option for them?
