From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:26:47 -0500, Paul   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> BTW, while she was in, her mother died, and because she was in the   
   >> city's care, NYCity provided for free an attendant to go with her to the   
   >> funeral and burial in New Jersey, which probably took 90 minutes each   
   >> way plus an hour or two for the funeral etc.  Easily 5 hours.  NY also   
   >> had then, 45 years ago, and I'm sure still has free paychiatric   
   >> counselingtherapy for 2 or 3 sessions for everyone, in a hospital not   
   >> too far from one's home.  That is there are quite a few locations spread   
   >> out over the 5 boroughs.  Because the citizens and the government of NYC   
   >> care about the welfare of its citizans.  I don't know what is avaiiable   
   >> in other cities in the US, including my own.   
   >   
   >There are quite a few opportunities for counseling here, but there   
      
   Where is here?   
      
   >aren't enough staff to treat everyone who needs it.   
   >   
   >A lot of the street people, that might be the root cause for   
   >them being on the street. It isn't always just a drug problem,   
   >and the drugs are a way of handling it, for the people out there.   
      
   I can see that.   
      
   >Part of the reason for "caring", is to ensure the right people   
   >are present for each kind of job. For example, if you don't   
   >look at the mentally ill at all, and they're wandering the   
   >streets, sooner or later there will be police interaction.   
   >In one of the cases here, a policeman shows up and doesn't   
   >know what the call is about, he hits the mentally-ill   
   >man with one punch... and kills him.   
      
   Just watched a video where a cop abused a 75-yo woman with dementia, who   
   had not paid for $14 worth from Walmart and was walking home, but he got   
   fired for it, even though he didn't know she had dementia.  It's hard to   
   tell from body cameras, and I couldnt bear to watch all of it, but he   
   must have treated her even worse than the typical resistin arrest   
   suspect.   
      
   >They try to educate the police about mental illness. My   
   >sister was taking "abnormal psychology" at her university,   
   >and there were three policemen in the lecture hall   
   >taking the course. That's so the policemen can tell   
   >their flora from their fauna when patrolling the streets.   
   >   
   >I think we may actually have progressed to a couple cars   
   >with mental health professionals on board, and they can   
   >be sent on 911 calls, instead of dispatching police for   
   >every call. If weapons are involved, then the police will   
   >roll up too. Where the guy got punched, there were   
   >no weapons there, and the person was just being unruly.   
   >If the mental health people had showed up, there   
   >would have been an opportunity to tell the policeman   
   >to chill a bit.   
   >   
   >   Paul   
      
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