This chart is kind of shocking actually. A society completely flipped the mechanism for how it deals with people who are problematic for themselves and others.
https://m.primal.net/Lazc.jpg
I recall in the early 70s, the rise of psycho-active drugs like thorazine, enabled the hospitals to empty out the mentally ill. It was the beginning of widespread homelessness and crime as these folks weren’t really healthy. Sad. The thorazine took the edge off the more violent patients.