Sadly, there comes a point where a person is a danger to others and I don't care about their mental health anymore. Too often someone is brought in on a 72 hr hold where you force them to take their meds and stabilize them, then turn them lose to stop taking their meds and become a danger to others. Or a child molester is kept in prison where he cannot molest kids, then released into society with the same desires that got him arrested in the first place.

Either lock them up where they can get treatment and supervision, and there are plenty of programs and mental health outreach for that, or put them down as humanely as possible.

Instead we keep releasing them in an attempt to be compassionate and give them a second chance and they reoffend, and that's not fair to the victims they hurt. I feel the same way about career violent criminals and vicious dogs who attack people. Sorry, but my sadness over your wasted life of violence, your fault or not, is outweighed by my concern for your victims.