@infogab With police funding here in Canada being cut, I'll give you a few guesses what kinds of programs are often first on the chopping block.  The budget of my old service is literally half what it used to be, and I lament the many people that probably aren't served as a result.

I think there's some give and take to be had here.  Managing malingerers is a tricky subject to which I don't think there is an objectively-right answer, but I think we should try to identify them and treat them accordingly so that they don't waste any more resources than we can help (we ARENT going to be able to help them wasting any resources at all), while at the same time, we would have a much easier time of this if the support networks were better-funded.  It would be less of an issue if we had more able persons that were helping to begin with, more time for them to spend with people, and so forth.