There are numerous if not thousands of people walking our streets with severe mental illness. There is nowhere to locate them since all the mental institutions have been closed by successive governments. Bean counters.
Police resources are stretched; hospital resouces are stretched; and goals can only hold them for so long. And still they walk the streets. Slowly they are being eliminated by acts of violence as in this case or more often by picking up a knife and having the Police doing the cull.
Institutions have a place; severe mental illness can only increase; it cannot decrease even if purely based on percentages. Here is another example of infrastructure spending or lack thereof in the wrong area. Social issues have consequences and user pays it not always a satisfactory outcome or criteria..
