Editorial: Forcing treatment on mentally ill homeless people is a bad idea

California’s mental health care infrastructure is controversial for the wrong reason. Critics target the groundbreaking Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 1967 for supposedly filling the streets with drug users and mentally ill people. But LPS, as it is known, didn’t do any of that. It and similar laws adopted in other states simply limited the vast power… Continue reading Editorial: Forcing treatment on mentally ill homeless people is a bad idea