Mental hygiene warrants
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 11 years ago, in 2013, on the World Wide Web.
Here is the creepiest bit of dystopian legal language that I have heard in the past month or so:
and
Keep in mind that one of the main activities of the Real Time Crime Center
right now is to watch, chase down, arrest, imprison and force unwanted psychiatric treatment on people who specifically have not been accused of committing any crimes (The city [sic] is making a major push to sweep the streets of dangerous, mentally ill New Yorkers–and has even compiled a most-wanted list. … Those [
)mental hygiene
] warrants mean that the patients are not wanted for a crime but instead are being sought because they are not getting their court-ordered treatment.
This bit of overtly totalitarian mental health
fascism has been brought to you by the New York Police Department..[1]
Also.
- [1]Content warning, for slurs from the headline on down, fear-mongering, ignorant scapegoating, and general police-state fascism. I apologize for the really very offensive and generally awful source article; I hate the New York Post in basically every possible way.↩
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