Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Some people say it's wrong to require the homeless to sleep in shelters

But these barbaric murders of unsheltered people show how dangerous it is to let people sleep outside

Basic human decency demands universal shelter and a ban on public camping

apnews.com/article/suspec…

As mayor of San Francisco, California Gov. @GavinNewsom led the effort to make "Housing First" both statewide and federal policy

That, combined with tolerance of open drug use, resulted in an explosion of unsheltered homelessness

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1503823557100417025?s=20&t=P_6QU_umxRjlVk1Sv52alQ

We are in a homeless humanitarian emergency

California should lead the world to

1. Create a statewide psychiatric and addiction care system, Cal-Psych

2. Establish a "Shelter First, Housing First" policy

3. Enforce laws & divert the sick into rehab/psych care

Those most sick with addiction and mental illness are vulnerable

It's time for a change

California should lead America in addressing the homeless drug and mental illness crisis

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1503224377520783360?s=20&t=OJqJ8Fbt5jd_Xt7MlC2tsg

It appears that the suspect in the murders is himself a mentally ill homeless man

“The suspect… struggled with mental illness and often slept on the street, his father and aunt told Gothamist on Tuesday.”

gothamist.com/news/dc-police…

“He is a good person and like many across the world, he suffers from mental illness,” the suspect’s father, said. “The bigger picture is not that he has mental illness, but the number of times that he’s been within the judicial system and how the system has failed.”

How much longer must this go on before we put aside politics and put in place a proper psychiatric and addiction care system?

We need the “Three Key Ps”

- Policing
- Psychiatry
- Probation

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-black-mo…