A major difference between when I grew up and now is the prevalence of the severely mentally ill living on city streets. Would you send your 5 year old self down the streets of San Francisco or Seattle? As a 45 year old I’m frightened often enough - I can’t imagine my daughter being forced to navigate those situations alone. The assault and murder rates due to the untreated mentally ill in the cities I’ve lived in is high and visible.
In the 70’s and 80’s we still had a functional mental public health system an a relatively small population living on the streets.
Case in point a clearly disturbed person walked into my daughters school grounds and began exposing himself last week. The teachers corralled him and the police took him to jail, but they said more or less he will be back in a week or two and to be more careful securing the school grounds.
If that’s the environment at school, what about the sidewalks and streets between home and school?
In the 70’s and 80’s we still had a functional mental public health system an a relatively small population living on the streets.
Case in point a clearly disturbed person walked into my daughters school grounds and began exposing himself last week. The teachers corralled him and the police took him to jail, but they said more or less he will be back in a week or two and to be more careful securing the school grounds.
If that’s the environment at school, what about the sidewalks and streets between home and school?