Originally Posted by jplinville

I think the answer to this problem would have been to lock up all known crazy nut jobs that are on the loose before they harm somebody.

I remember passing what my dad used to call the Funny Farm...it was a state facility for the mentally insane. Back in the 1970's, for one reason or another, funding either dried up or somebody was locked away that really wasn't crazy, I don't know...anyway, the facility was shut down and became vacant. About that same time, I remember seeing people walking the streets, talking to themselves when we went downtown. Why did we let so many of them loose on the public??

Today, we have more mentally ill people living amongst the public than we did years ago.

Consequently, we stopped out monthly visit to the river downtown, and stayed within the suburbs after seeing the crazies out on the street...dad told us it was no longer safe downtown.