We know that one of your biggest public safety challenges is addressing mental illness, on the street and in your jails. Just to give you a data snapshot:
- As much as 10 percent of all law enforcement calls in the U.S. involve people living with a serious mental illness.
- About 15 percent of men and 34 percent of women in jails have a serious mental illness. That’s compared to just four percent of people in the general population.
- We know that people with serious mental illness stay in jail longer and return more frequently.
- And finally, people with mental illness are among a small group of people who make up the largest share of public contact with the police. A study of arrests in Camden, New Jersey, for example, found that five percent of adults accounted for 25 percent of arrests over a five-year period. These are what we call “high utilizers.
Good to see the root of the problem being addressed instead of cultivated! GO TEAM TRUMP!
To: ransomnote
I also wanted to add that I think this also is countering the Dem's use of "The Algerian Strategy" by cultivating crime, drug abuse at every level of our society. Dems use of The Algerian Strategy (inflate crime to overthrow the country) explains so much of the deterioration we'd seen.
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03/02/2020 10:18:30 AM PST by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: ransomnote
And yet these worthless AG’s whatever their title can’t even indict an easy one Comey! Give US a friggn Breat! And an entire office dedicated to Violence against Women!?!?!
Males are mostly murder victims 76.8%
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03/02/2020 10:25:58 AM PST by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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