San Francisco has a large “severely mental ill” population who refuse treatment.
Both residents and tourists have complained about the “mentally ill homeless people” that create havoc, according to city leaders.
For years the city has debated how to deal with them. A version of a controversial law called Laura’s Law, has been recently implemented.
For a further description of Laura’s law that was created in 2002 in California see the referenced article S.F. tries version of Laura’s Law for mentally ill – SFGate.
For an in depth understanding of how mentally ill homeless people could influence a city spiritually see this teaching episode on Building the Warrior from Prophet.tv.
See also this associated article.