Man who beheaded Greyhound Passenger, roams free

That very much defeats the purpose of handling the situation with mental health professionals and attempting to solve the problem.

If they are in a hospital, they will continue with sessions and treatments.

No shit? Wow, i really didnt get that before i made my comment, thanks for clearing that up!

I change text to purple to indicate sarcasm right? Meh, not sure how to do that here. Dont you claim to be a fiscal conservative? or at least concerned with the cost of things?

That is because "being good" is subjective and (im a bit shocked i have to say this to an adult) quite frankly, life is far more complicated than simply labeling people as good or bad.

No, its them being honest.

They often do not know what happened because they have a different view of the person than you do. This is where the whole "lifes more complicated than that" comes into play. To you its a handful of true or false events on a piece of paper and then you're left to judge someone on that. To them, its a human being they've raised or grown up with and seen every emotion and possibility out of them. They've seen them do bad tings but they've also seen them do very good things or be loving parents or loving brothers or caring people.

Yeah I was fighting off imaginary dogs when I was in jail. When you have it and you're off meds reality becomes a delusion and you're prone to be violent because your minds puts you in a state which a lot of the times feel like you have to fight for your life.

False equivalency.. 99%+ of those patients have committed crimes or the like coming no where near to this kind of level of brutality and depravity.... Ok lets say he has a 5% chance of relapsing.. For others relapsing its possibly assaulting some one or committing suicide.. For this guys case its beheading some one and eating them.

You can't monitor someone every day to see if they take their meds....

Furthermore ffs people stop comparing mental ward to the equivlent of "being locked up" in prison.. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING, stop trying to act like they are.

@LJS9502_basic: They don't have to monitor him every day.

I never stated that the two were equivalent to each other. People diagnosed with mental disorders after the commission of a crime, especially one as heinous as the one in this thread means said person should be kept in said hospital. That has been my assertion from the get go.

No I was more adding on to your statement, I wasn't trying to assert that you specifically said that.. More pointing towards other posters who did. Apologies for not being clear enough.

It's all good. I wasn't sure if we were on the same page or not with that so I wanted to clarify myself.

And therein is the problem. If he skips his meds....he's a danger.

@LJS9502_basic: What I'm saying is that they don't have to monitor someone every single day to make sure they are taking their medication. Anyway they are the professionals and the ones who have treated him and know what's going on with the situation so I trust they made the right and fair decision.

exactly

In the US, we have incredibly poor mental health care so we see crazies doing, well, crazy shit all the time and basically getting released and roaming free. We assume this is how it is in the rest of the world.

It's not; in the rest of the world, they actually take care of their people. So, as you said, if they treated him, medicated him, and found him to be an acceptable risk to release back into the public then that's fine.

You people make it sound like Canada is releasing some dangerous government experiment on the general public; they're not, this is a sick man who was treated, made better, and deserves to go home. I suppose we should lock up cured Ebola patients because they had Ebola? Same freaking difference.

Schizophrenia isn't curable. He will have relapses. That's a fact.

@mrbojangles25: In order to maintain he has to continue to take meds. That doesn't always happen and it has nothing to do with the country he's in.

@n64dd: fair enough, and you're right, it's not curable (but treatable).

I just don't like all the people making it out like he is a criminal. The guy obviously has to take his meds or he is a danger, so the only guarantee is to put him in some sort of facility, but I don't think it is fair to classify him as a criminal since he is about as mentally ill as they come.

And that has been my assertion regarding this guy, and others like him, all along.

I don't think he should be free to roam the streets. I think he should always be in the proper care.

We are on the same page dude.

@WhiteKnight77 said:

@n64dd said:

@WhiteKnight77 said:

@mrbojangles25 said:

@n64dd: fair enough, and you're right, it's not curable (but treatable).

I just don't like all the people making it out like he is a criminal. The guy obviously has to take his meds or he is a danger, so the only guarantee is to put him in some sort of facility, but I don't think it is fair to classify him as a criminal since he is about as mentally ill as they come.

And that has been my assertion regarding this guy, and others like him, all along.

I don't think he should be free to roam the streets. I think he should always be in the proper care.

We are on the same page dude.

yeah.

but, idunno...special outings should be allowed. Supervised work release? Something like that. There has to be a middle ground.

Othrerwise, yes, I agree with the above statement

I remember reading a story where a mentally ill woman killed her child. Not long after, she was roaming around free, with her other child.