What does DTK need?

[tomh009]

The point is, you want to pre-emptively confine someone based on your fear that they might do something problematic. In the case of a person on the street, acting erratically or in a threatening, but non-criminal manner.

Well, I'll make a bold claim here...damn near 100% of high functioning alcoholics in Canada drink and drive. They are the same statement. So for a high functioning alcoholic with a car, we'd have to confine them, or impound their vehicle.

In both cases, I don't actually think it's necessary. In the case of drunk driving, we need to normalize and facilitate non-driving, for the other I think we need better mental health and addiction support.

A case in point: today I was overtaken in DTK by a screaming/swearing person. Not assaulted, but he was indeed loud (and did knock over a bunch of store signs while walking past them).

But a few minutes after overtaking me, he walked to the door of a multiresidential build, opened the door using a fob and entered the building. Definitely not a homeless person. Annoying, but not criminal.