We all know about the mentally ill man that shot at a Fremont Police patrol vehicle a few weeks back. And you may have heard about the woman that stabbed an off duty OPD cop a few blocks from the OPD station. Turns out she is a transient who is on probation for another stabbing last year. In that case she stabbed a man she knew while he was sleeping on an outdoor bench. She is on felony probation for that. This is obviously a sick woman that needs to be kept off the streets. Then yesterday morning in Oakland, an ACSO deputy was stabbed by a transient outside of a social services building he was trying to open up. The deputy was not in uniform, but asked a transient to move so he could open the doors up. The transient stabbed him with a knife and fled on a bicycle. The deputy sustained only minor injuries. While I believe its true that most homeless are harmless, the mentally ill sub group needs to be dealt with more aggressively. There must be someplace to house those that are delusional. And they should not be released back to the streets until it is certain that they will not harm others.
+credit to the EBT for their reporting on the Oakland events+
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