The demonic “city” has done its trillionth meaningless “task force” on the most basic functions of government, and it still hasn’t done any actual WORK.
This “task force” was assembled after a previous “task force” wrote an intentionally failed “referendum” designed to guarantee that nothing would improve. Three years later, the “stakeholders” are congratulating each other on talking to each other.
I DO NOT GIVE THE TINIEST FUCK ABOUT YOUR TALK. DO SOMETHING.
As I’ve been repeating a trillion times over the last 50 years,
1. Distinguish between professional criminals and lawbreakers.
2. Put criminals in jail and keep them there for life.
3. Confine lawbreakers long enough to break bad habits (both crime and drugs).
4. Give lawbreakers new habits, show them how to have PRIDE in USEFUL work.
Looking at the actual proposal, one of its sections seems vaguely relevant. It’s called Focus Interventions on the High Utilizers of the Criminal Justice and Health Systems. Okay, might be getting there.
What does it propose specifically?
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Applying this pattern to Spokane suggests a relatively small population—potentially on the order of a few hundred individuals—who are high utilizers of multiple systems. These individuals aremore likely to cycle repeatedly through the corrections facility, generate frequent emergency room visits, and experience chronic homelessness, often simultaneously.
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So far so good. They grasp the CONCENTRATED nature of professional criminals. What to do with them?
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Establish a cross-system, coordinated intervention strategy focused on the small group of individuals who account for the largest share of public cost across justice, health, and homelessness systems. Identify the high users of the justice and health system in Spokane and coordinate resources to stabilize them in services. Communicate that initial costs for service consumption could be higher, but if successful this strategy will lower long term resource needs. Actions could include: Spokane should explore the use of advanced technology and predictive analytic tools to support cross-system case management, identify high utilizers earlier, improve care coordination, and reduce fragmentation across behavioral health, healthcare, homelessness, and justice systems. Modern interoperable platforms can help providers and justice partners identify individuals with repeated crisis-system involvement, coordinate interventions in real time, support warm handoffs, and better allocate scarce public resources. Any implementation should include strong privacy protections, governance safeguards, and public accountability.
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Huge steaming pile of corporate buzzwords, no action at all.
Here’s how you identify the few hundred people:
1. Ask a cop.
The cops know pro criminals closely because they see them all the time. No fucking mystery, no cross-system interoperable platforms.
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