ZitatThose warrants mean that the patients are not wanted for a crime but instead are being sought because they are not getting their court-ordered treatment
I read this yesterday and these people aren't just being picked up and locked away without due process. These are people with outstanding warrants after they were deemed in need of psychiatric evaluation due to threats of harm to themselves or others.
Quote: steph wrote in post #4I read this yesterday and these people aren't just being picked up and locked away without due process. These are people with outstanding warrants after they were deemed in need of psychiatric evaluation due to threats of harm to themselves or others.
That's what seems to have been missing in the report, the outstanding warrant. A police officer isn't being asked to make a judgment call on someone's mental condition. That would be ludicrous, scary and unconstitutional. We'd have a police force with way too much power.
But if there's a judge's order and an outstanding warrant? then it's a simple case for the policeman, he's arresting a violator.
. . And suddenly the world turned asymmetrical. There were no longer any battle fronts. It was every man for himself.
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