I sat and watched a clip this morning of the California 'State of the Union' speech by Governor Gavin Newsom.
His key idea from this? He wants to fix homelessness in California by find some method (left blank for the most part) to ease the government into a bigger role of forcing (he actually used that word) people into psychiatric treatment. If you had mental illness and living off the street....they'd mandate an exam for you and forced treatment.
All of this....circling around the idea that those who are suggested to be unable to care for themselves....would be put into a permanent facility.
Odds of this happening? I'll make three observations:
1. The governor will likely only fund this agenda item with twenty-odd million, and stage some type of situation with only 200 folks getting mental facility assignments by some judge. It'll prove it works but realistically requires over two-billion dollars a year to accomplish.
2. If you did make this a legit program? I would suggest almost 25,000 people throughout the state would be deemed 'helpless' and forced into actual psychiatric treatment.
3. If this did go to the realistic step of cops picking up people....within ten days....dozens of people per hour....would be leaving the state for other 'safe' locations (Portland, Vegas, Seattle, etc).
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