Not too sure which section to put this under, so feel free to move it.
The Vancouver Sun ran a story about a new facility for 150 or so mentally ill and a police report that says about 50% of the cases dealt with the police in the DTES are dealing with the mentally ill:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...a64339&k=33057
If we opened more of these facilities, I think we'd see a dramatic decrease in crime. The mentally ill would also get the help they deserve rather than being exploited by leeches that prey on them in the DTES.