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Texas adds reason people can be detained for mental illness as Trump urges action on homelessness (www.houstonchronicle.com)

submitted 9 months ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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"Starting Sept. 1, the inability to recognize one’s psychiatric condition, or anosognosia, will be grounds for a law enforcement officer to detain an individual if it could lead to harm.

In such cases, a doctor would evaluate the patient’s mental health within 12 hours, and, if deemed necessary, could initiate a series of steps that could lead to a judge deciding whether to court-order treatment. Anosognosia is a result of physical changes to the brain, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and is common with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's very hard to book an appointment to see a doctor within 12 hours. Is the plan to have a bunch of doctors on hand to rubber stamp a diagnosis?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think that's the idea, probably another way to funnel state money to special interests.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It certainly won’t go to actual healthcare

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

No they'll be cna dropouts if they have any training at all

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I suspect the plan is even more nefarious than that. I think they will start by using this a lot in blue leaning, minority heavy areas. You know they will not be using this to detain Billy Joe Bob down at the watering hole who keeps seeing UFOs. Just those with suspicious complexions and suspected liberals.

Mostly they'll just let people go after 10 or 12 hours, rarely if ever actually getting someone committed. Of course, if that person was on their way to work, they will probably have been fired or docked for not showing up when they were supposed to. Police will only use it occasionally at first, most likely to punish anyone who is insufficiently docile or fails to follow police orders instantly. Then about 2-3 weeks before the election, they will ramp it up a ton. They nab people left and right and will make sure it;s all over the news and social media that people in some parts of the state are disproportionately being detained in this fashion.

Will there be lawsuits? You betcha, but they don't care. In fact, they want the lawsuits. That gives them news coverage which is what they really want. Besides, they own nearly all the judges now, and if they happen to lose a case here and there, they will surely win on the appeal.

Come election day, anyone with the wrong complexion will have to think twice before showing up at the polls to vote for fear of being detained and possibly forcibly committed for trying to vote while black.