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Mental Illness and the Crime Conversation Taboo
from #280 - Nervous Neurotic Animal | The Tim Dillon Show · #280
6 min
Tim argues people can no longer have honest discussions about rising urban crime, citing declining mental institutionalization rates and personal friends he believes should be institutionalized.
- People concerned about physical safety are dismissed by wealthy people without families who don't have to worry about crime.
- America can't have logical discussions about crime because topics are too emotionally charged and people care more about saying the right thing than facts.
- Crime is spiking in cities and affecting vulnerable populations—poor people, elderly, women, those on public transit—while wealthy people in suburbs stay insulated.
- Defunding police and reallocating to community reinvestment, education, and mental health are worthwhile long-term ideas, but short-term crime has been a problem.
- If the U.S. still hospitalized the mentally ill at 1955 rates, institutions would house 1.1 million people instead of the current 50,000.
- Tim knows seven or eight friends personally who should be institutionalized and unable to plan their own day.
- It's not broke open-mic comedians on Twitter discussing crime—it's people with skin in the game across the political spectrum saying things aren't good.
- You need to identify people with mental illness, get them care, off the street, off drugs, and away from weapons they can use to harm others.
- More people are losing their minds every day as the culture pushes them toward a breaking point where they commit acts of violence.