According to the board that actually reviews these matters, he was determined “a significant threat to the safety of the public” just last October. Lo and behold, he did it again. Stunner. Not sure which “accounts” you’re referring to that say he was doing so great. Same board determined he was a “high risk for future violence and serious physical harm” as the cherry on top.
If you’re comfortable with folks with this track record and this recent, objective assessment running around in the public, then that’s great for you. I’m not, and I think I’m more than in my right to feel that way. Wonder what the family of the deceased thinks.
According to the board that gave him conditional discharge and released him into a community setting....That WAS their determination several times with this patient. You must have missed that.
You're using after the fact judgement despite the review panel, all the professionals, that determined he could be in an open setting group home. You don't have a clue about this, but you're arguing about it with somebody that spent their whole career in this field. Again there would be hundreds of psychiatric patients just in this community that represent similar risk to the public and live in community setting and even on their own or with friends and family. You only hear about the individual that does commit a heinous crime or murder. You don't ever hear about the thousand patients with similar designation that reintegrate without tragedy.
I'm convinced you don't even know what open setting is or what parameters apply and how these decisions are triaged. This patient had had stays in Alberta Hospital but they cannot house everybody in these facilities indefinitely due to a major shortage in Psychiatric beds. Its probable that nearly every severely mentally patient in the group home has similar risk designation. Indeed the person he murdered, from the same group home had also assaulted people and been considered a risk to public.
You're also unaware that the assessment takes into account the level of care the individual is being provided with. He was in a grouphome, one with likely access to specialized services and resources specific to handling such patients in community facilities. The board decided the individual could not be released outright into the community. That he needed provision of care, which he was receiving.
You also ignored all this:
"Prior to the conditional discharge, Ferzli had been residing in a “semi-independent living” home in the community. The review board documents indicate that Ferzli was addressing his struggles with addictions and had made “significant progress” on that front, noting he had been chairing Narcotics Anonymous meetings at Alberta Hospital, a psychiatric facility that provides care through both inpatient and outpatient programs. But the tribunal also noted that at times Ferzli had been stressed and “presented with manic-type symptoms.”
The review board noted Ferzli is aware of his mental illness and takes medications but added that his “mental state is very fragile"
The offender even had been granted a conditional discharge. Not full, but conditional. Again NOBODY assessed that he was a risk to murder anybody. His noted aggression case history is being a risk to physically aggress against family or people he is housed with.
Maybe if you don't believe me on this you can listen to the lawyers, Psychiatrists, boards currently speaking about this matter. NOBODY could have predicted this individual would actually murder anybody. His risk profile was not that. His case history was not that. He was NOT classed as a dangerous offender, a completely different designation and category of risk. You don't know any of that but keep arguing.
This patient had been running NA meetings and other meetings. He was mentoring other addicts. Including some of the patients that are friends of his in setting he's been in. This is individual with a Schizo-Manic profile that had instances of functioning well for extended times.
Looking at the information available this individual was entrusted with helping others in facilities and had sustained moments of successfully managing his conditions.
