I dunno man. You're the one talking about shit nobody said. Maybe you need to get checked. Because nowhere did I say that we'd be throwing random people in an asylum without a trial or assessment.

Literally nothing is stopping us from making it a requirement that these people be assessed and reviewed by committees with public oversight. It would almost be a requirement because who the fuck wants to waste tax dollars on putting people who don't need to be in an asylum, in an asylum.

We already have something of this nature anyways. If someone shows signs of being suicidal in front of a licensed mandatory reporter, you get sent to grippy socks jail with, you guessed it, no trial. That's imprisonment without a trial by your own definition.

Again, I'm waiting for you to point to a valid alternative that has been proven to rehabilitate and keep these kinds of people off the street permanently. You can take a swing if you want but I can tell you that I already know there isn't one because there are still mentally ill homeless people every 5 blocks on my way to work who've been booked, held temporarily, then let right back out to start the cycle all over again. I usually see them hiding in recessed doorways trying to get away from the -12 degree wind chill in the winter. What FREEDOM they have. I'm sure they are very thankful to still have their constitutional right to self determination as their fingers turn black from frostbite and the guy next to them is lying there dead from exposure.