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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:26:47 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> 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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