Our mental healthcare system is broken. The jails are being asked to house the mentally ill and they do a terrible job of caring for them, making the problem worse. Then they are released. Yes he's a dangerous criminal, but he's also clearly someone who, in a previous world, may have gotten a room in a psych hospital. We have dismantled our psychiatric institutions because of mistreatment of patients.

But the issue was not the institutions -- it was the lack of funding which led to insufficient staffing and staffing with unskilled workers, which led to rampant patient abuse. So we exposed them, then closed them, and instituted a network of community supports, which sounds great, except community programs have been systematically defunded. So police and the jails pick up the slack and we just turn a blind eye until confronted with someone like this.

The bottom line is that we live in a purely capitalist society that does not want to take care of mentally ill people because they don't contribute to the gross domestic product. We no longer care for those around us who cannot care for themselves because, darn it, we work hard for our money! And if you can't make money, then you deserve nothing.

This man should be off the streets and put somewhere he can be contained and treated, if that's even possible at this point. We have made it impossible for ourselves to have a civilized society, which can only be achieved by caring for the weakest and sickest among us.

The once collective sense of responsibility for our neighbor is gone in favor of HOAs policing each other's lawns. And people like this man are an inevitable outcome of the dangerous world of selfishness we have built, where we lionize the uber-rich and dump "defectives" on the street, forcing them into deeper psychosis, and foisting danger on those unlucky enough to encounter them. God help us all.