Truthfully, as far a stretch as it may seem I can take things like this back to the start of the drug war and the Reagan tax cuts. Here's how...
I was born in 1955 and was a young adult before those two events took place. I was a bit of a juvenile delinquent starting in grade school. I received a great deal of special attention and counseling from teachers and police and I came to respect and appreciate them.
But in today's world law enforcement has become overburdened and dysfunctional, spending most of their time and budget on things they shouldn't be doing and less and less on what they should. That's mostly the drug war, but the Reagan tax cuts hurt police too and those cuts allowed/required Reagan to completely disassemble our nations entire massive system of mental health hospitals.
Better and more well funded policing, schooling and mental health care could very well have made the difference for this sick kid. With our prison system 600% more populated PER-CAPITA than it was when I was young, how can we hope to give troubled youths the attention they need?
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