It was a revolving door between the street, psych emergency, the hospital in Napa, halfway houses, cheap residential hotels, the street, psych emergency, the hospital in Napa, halfway houses, cheap residential hotels, the street, psych emergency, the hospital in Napa, halfway houses, cheap residential hotels, the street, psych emergency, the hospital in Napa, halfway houses, cheap residential hotels, the street, psych emergency, the hospital in Napa, halfway houses, cheap residential hotels... and the beat goes on. 
Other stops on the tour might include living with family, jail, substance abuse programs, and group living situations.
Just being angry isn't enough to get someone even a 72-hour hold. Neither is being suicidal or just plain crazy.
Unless you've got money *and* you're fairly stable, psych services in this country are a joke.
And the thing of it is that it's probably cheaper to set a person up in a place like Napa, like "Here's your bed, here's your meds, lunch is at noon, you'll find the day room down the hall," than it is to pay for the cycle of non-treatment that my mom saw. Stable living situations produce stable patients. Crazy living situations produce crazy patients.
Almost all of these people were nonviolent, of course.
But right now we're putting out fires instead of addressing long-term solutions.
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