Why are we leaving people to die on the streets in California in the name of civil liberty? Would you accept this for your mom, dad, brother, sister? So why do we accept this moral failure for someone who doesn’t have the same support system? For years, advocates and higher levels of government told us to invest in call diversion. Last year, we increase 911 call transfers to 988 by 10x to try to connect people with a more appropriate response team. But when Japantown residents called 988 last week to help this poor woman laying in her own excrement in front of a small business, they were told she couldn’t be helped. So we went back to @SanJosePD to secure yet another 5150 hold. This means she was held involuntarily in our County hospital for no more than 72 hours and is now, as with the many times prior, right back on the streets of Japantown, suffering in public, impacting residents and small businesses, and not getting the life-saving intervention she needs and the wider community deserves. Our next Governor must do two things to end this humanitarian crisis: fund in-patient treatment facilities and allow CARE Court to mandate involuntary treatment for longer than a brief visit to the county hospital. The compassion answer is to intervene and require people come indoors. Enough excuses.