Name:   Carlson - Subject:   Another shooting Date:   4/10/2023 7:40:10 PM

I sensed in the 2010's that outplacement of patients in state hospitals was stressed even if the patient did not want to live there in the community.  If done well with adequate supports great.  But stresses on state budget would eventually place people to the streets, the jails, the prisons.  Like clockwork governor Ivey obliged to cut budgets from MH to prisons, etc.  kids were next and the numbers in the streets, and prisons increased.  

so the state hospital beds were closed and defunded to fund other stuff.  Any help to police departments was de-emphasized and defunded.  It was heartbreaking because doing the right thing was not only good policy but cheaper in the short and long run.  But requires commitment and dedication.  Simply easier to ignore and incarcerate.  

i left the system in disgust and disappointment and watched 30 years of work undone, people incarcerated, families destroyed and the killing begins and deaths occur.  All I know it is all evil based in the name of wokeness.  Sorry for the negativity but it not just other states but right here in river city.