Those resources were explicitly redirected to community based nonprofits that spend most of their budgets facilitating the lives of the aforementioned people who would previously be in locked institutions. You've got cause and effect backwards.
You're right. They still commit some people though.
And I didn't mean to say specific policies are in play. It's the outcry of the surrounding communities that have a loud but powerless group that want people forcibly locked up. (Seattle here)
