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Lisa Graham: Most with mental illness don't commit violent acts
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOn Sept. 3, our community, like so many others, was impacted by an act of violence. In addition to...
NH faces overlap of crime, mental illness: Jail super says 'they don't belong in concrete'
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMental health problems — suicidal ideation, depression, drug withdrawal, a risk of harm to others,...
Mental health experts, not police, responded to minor crime in new program. Here's what happened
The Today Show via AOL· 2 years agoMental health specialists are responding to nonviolent crime in Denver's STAR program. Rates of...
How Can We Address Anti-Asian Hate? Let’s Start With Treatment, Not Jail.
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAsian Americans gathered at Times Square to protest Asian Hate in New York City, New York, on March...
A man with mental illness died after 20 days in solitary confinement. Did the jail system fail him?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Joshua McLemore's mother couldn't reach her son several states away in Indiana during the...
Why experts say some unhoused people are unfairly assumed to be dangerous
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA few high-profile cases of unhoused people committing violent acts in U.S. cities like New York and...
Opinion: Gun violence and mental illness are not the same thing
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the United States and in Iowa, we have a gun violence crisis, and we have a mental health crisis....
Foster: Linking mental illness and mass shootings is tenuous, complicated
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI've worked in mental health for 15 years. I was an advocate and rubbed elbows with politicians,...
‘Deeply problematic’: Advocates pan New York City policy to hospitalise mentally ill people against...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew York City’s emergency responders have been directed to involuntarily hospitalise mentally ill...
Which Los Angeles neighborhoods are safest? See the latest trends in the LA crime rates
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLOS ANGELES — For years, Los Angeles residents, like many in communities across the country, have...