http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/01/10/did-dupnik-dismiss-loughner-threat/
Posted on 01/10/2011 2:54:43 PM PST by tobyhill
Despite mounting concerns about his bizarre and disturbing behavior, local mental health authorities in Pima County, Ariz. said Monday that no one reported any concerns to them about Tucson mass shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner.
Loughner is accused of shooting 20 people on Saturday, killing six and wounding 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).
"To the best of our knowledge, he was never and is currently not enrolled in our system," said Neal Cash, president of the Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, the organization that provides mental health services to Tucson and Pima County for the state.
The majority of the people they serve are on Medicare, Cash said, but anyone diagnosed with a serious mental illness would be in their system and eligible for services. Despite severe cutbacks in the state mental health budget as a result of the foreclosure crisis and recession - Cash estimates around $50 million has been cut in the last two fiscal years - he said that no one diagnosed seriously mentally ill has been turned down for services.
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Now we know why the Sheriff protested talk radio and conservative personalities so much right out of the gate.
he should just resign now, he is a quivering yellow Lilly livered waste of human flesh.
What did the Sheriff know? More than he saying.
The sheriff pretty admitted he was familiar with this kid and that he had made threats to others. The sheriff has some splainin to do.
Never.
Not once.
I wonder how one finds out who they are, as in the past when I"ve had friends who have called 911 for help from "crazies" they were told ALL they could do was go to court and issue a restraining order.
So, what's this about local "mental health authorities" being notified about untreated crazies????
OMG! He knew it? Who assessed the kid? Or did this sheriff take it upon himself to call him mentally ill without any qualifications to do so?
It works the other way around. The cops call in a professional to assess the inmate.
This is a really bad situation for this sheriff.
Is the Sheriff a Friend or Reative of the family???
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/01/10/did-dupnik-dismiss-loughner-threat/
Looks like the Pima mental health folks are throwing the old sheriff under the bus...who can blame them. No one wants to touch this tarbaby...may well be why Dupnik is spinning all his tales trying to keep his foreknowledge from being an issue.
I'm starting to think that this sheriff has blood on his hands, and that may be why he is screaming about talk radio and Sarah Palin so much...
Then if LE takes action on a posting, what are the guidelines for action against someone with no priors? Judge ruling as if a property search? Nature of the target (i.e. prominence level)?
From the background of the guy it seems like the trifecta of anxiety-depression-agression with detachment from social acceptance. Of the million cases, how do we know which guy is going to pop? There are things said here on FR that could get the writer and the venue in trouble.
What did the Sheriff know?
“It’s not what you know, it’s WHO you know.” May apply here
more than WE know.
Dupnik has really blown it on this one. But he's of the right party and outlook, so people will be digging holes and putting their heads in them all over town.
County workers standing strong!
Is the Sheriff a Friend or Reative of the family???
Keep an eye on the possibility that there was special treatment.
Give me a minute and I'll find you the exact form Sheriff Dupnik couldn't be bothered with filling out.
The sheriff admitted he knew this guy had made previous threats.
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