So you’d rather lock someone up for a few years, make it near impossible for them to get employment upon release and just hope for the best? Or do we bear the expense of tossing away the key or killing them instead?
As for funding - a cop with a gun is clearly the best option dealing with situations like someone having a mental heath crisis - much safer, cheaper, and freer to shoot them or toss them in prison too! We can’t rest on our laurels with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Reallocating portions of those police resources to people like counsellors hasn’t had dramatically better outcomes wherever it’s been tried (unlike throwing more money at the police, of course), but I’m clearly preaching to the choir on this one.
I’d suggest you ease off the boot-licking a little - I think the boot polish might have gotten to your brain.