I agree with you and the idea we need the asylums again. But - only with safeguards, and not like the red-flag "safeguards". If someone is being committed against their will the time to take it before a judge is before they are committed - not after like with the gun laws. Then put another provision into the law that states after 14 days or 1 month the person is to be reevaluated by a 3rd party - not the person or people that committed them.

Penalties for abusing this should be at least a loss of medical license and 10 years in prison, as well as a suitable fine paid to the victim as reparations.

While we're at it, let's have a law that punishes the woke DAs and Judges for letting these serial offenders back out to re-offend over and over. Until judges and DAs are able to be held legally accountable the major cities will never be safe.