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Falsehoods and myths when responding to mentally ill or suicidal subject calls for service
Court ruled the officers had probable cause to detain the subject for his own safety and the legal power to use reasonable force to accomplish that detention
Community collaborations provide access to many innovative programs such as peer specialists and mental health urgent care facilities
The NYPD has trained more than 5,000 officers on how to handle mental health crisis calls but doesn’t have a way to dispatch those officers when calls come in
LE officials and mental health experts agree the nation’s crumbling mental health system has exacerbated the problem, often making officers de facto crisis counselors
The primary goal is to help individuals with mental illness and co-occurring substance issues by giving them the opportunity to receive mental health treatment rather than going to jail
The video shows the suspect opening the door and yelling “time to die”
Legislators continue to focus on guns, but we also cannot allow the dangerously mentally ill to have access to the myriad other killing tools readily at their disposal in the kitchen drawer, tool shed, or sporting goods store
Unlike Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, or James Holmes at a movie theater in Colorado, or Jared Loughner outside an Arizona shopping center, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did not have discernable psychiatric diagnoses
Part two of an active killers series explores behavioral cues of the dangerously mentally ill
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