By Andrew Scully, August 26, 2020, Anderson Valley Advisor.
Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall said this weekend that Covid is sparking “a massive increase in abnormal behaviors” among citizens, attributable to pandemic fatigue and shelter in place orders. These human behaviors play out in small ways – at first – like shorter fuses on anger, and increased substance abuse. When these issues are not addressed effectively, Kendall said, they often bloom into bigger problems that his deputies have to face every day, like domestic violence, road rage, assault, and murder. And in a perfect storm scenario, these pressures have exacerbated systemic problems that were already pushing an overburdened criminal justice and jail system to the limits.
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