New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an immediate directive on Tuesday detailing protocols for removing and treating mentally ill people from the city’s streets and subways. “If severe mental illness is causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to get the treatment and care they need,”…
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Directs City Officials to Hospitalize Mentally Ill People on the Streets
Motive for Florida Family’s Massacre May Never Be Known: Investigators
Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley outside the Lakeland, Florida, home where he allegedly killed a couple, their 3-month-old son, and the boy’s grandmother, he told them, “You know why I did this.” But they say they don’t and, in fact, may never know why Riley launched an attack against a…
City Attorney’s Office to Divert Some Offenders From Criminal Justice System
June 16, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office will divert from the traditional criminal justice system low-level, non-violent misdemeanor offenses committed by people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or drug addiction, city attorney Mike Feuer announced June 15. The goal of the Alternatives to Incarceration Pre-Filing Diversion Program is to introduce social service interventions into the criminal…
Euthanizing the Mentally Ill
Commentary Should psychiatrists and other doctors assist the suicides of mentally ill patients? Not that long ago, the answer to that question would have been unequivocally, “No” The job of a mental health professional is to save the lives of suicidal patients, not help them die. But that was before assisted suicide became and up…
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