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Originally Posted by Taf
The start of a lot of crime and injuries was "Care in the Community".
Closing Mental Hospitals, and releasing the inmates, hoping that they would continue taking their meds and turn up for checks.
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This is the truth, many were turfed out with no more than a slip of paper with an address on it and expected to go there for housing, of course after being institutionalised for decades it was doomed to fail. I remember hearing that dozens were found frozen to death every winter for years following the closure of our local hospital and now decades later things haven’t changed, the London Borough I used to live in merged with another to try and mask the horrific number of deaths still happening, people starving to death with cupboards full of food and the like, would've been kinder to have just taken them out the back and shot them.