There are at least three large mental health facilities with forensic
wards in your state of Florida. My wife did her internship at one of
them, a 650-bed facility. At the time she worked there, there were
several hundred persons resident who had been committed for substantial
or even indeterminate terms as a result of serious, violent criminal
activities in which they had engaged.
The assumption is that your wife met you at one of these mental
hospitals or during a group therapy session where you were a mandatory
attendee.
Your "guy around the corner" sounds like someone who is a drug addict
and who gets out of control but is not judged a threat to others. A
"Baker Act" commitment is for 72 hours, after which a judge determines
if cause can be demonstrated for a longer commitment. If not, as is
usually the case, the individual is released.
Thirty times in 10 years is a pattern. The guy is not right in the head.
Most communities these days simply don't have out-patient treatment
available for the indigent, so they end up hospitalized.
Maybe if you paid your taxes the government could afford to run in-
patient facilities.
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