Highlights Red flag laws are impossible to effectively enforce. We within the justice system knew that when they were introduced. What most want in terms…
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Category: Mental Illness
The Best Answers To Mass Shooting Questions-USDOJ Funded Research
Highlights The latest data on mass shootings from the National Institute of Justice of the US Department of Justice and the Rand Corporation. There are…
View More The Best Answers To Mass Shooting Questions-USDOJ Funded ResearchDiscovering That Growing Violence Doesn’t Have A Solution
Highlights Violent crime is rapidly rising. Violent criminals have little fear of being caught or held accountable. Mass shooters (the majority of which are street-level…
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The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be Victims
Highlights San Diego: experiencing homelessness have been involved with crime “at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population,” whether as victims or offenders.…
View More The Homeless Are Far More Likely To Commit Crimes And To Be VictimsMany Police Shootings Involve People In Mental Health Distress
Highlights Data suggests that many police shootings involve people in mental health distress. Per separate data, most offenders are under the influence at the time…
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Is There A Connection Between Employment And Housing And Crime?
Highlights A reader wants to know the percent of offenders employed and in housing before committing their crimes or after prison. Is there a connection…
View More Is There A Connection Between Employment And Housing And Crime?Criminals Prey On The Disabled And Vulnerable
Highlights The rate of violent victimization against persons with disabilities was nearly four times the rate for persons without disabilities. But the story regarding vulnerable…
View More Criminals Prey On The Disabled And VulnerableReplacing Cops With Social Workers in “Crisis”
Highlights Social workers are so backlogged that it can take a week or more to respond to urgent 911 calls. Police reform may have support…
View More Replacing Cops With Social Workers in “Crisis”Arrests and Police Stops Are Hazardous-Here’s Why
Highlights For police officers, being proactive and/or making arrests is extraordinarily dangerous. With the immense criticism directed towards law enforcement regarding use of force and…
View More Arrests and Police Stops Are Hazardous-Here’s WhyAre Half Of Harsh Police Encounters Due To Untreated Stress?
Highlights Does anyone care about police stress? Has society and cities abandoned cops and their mental health needs? How much of the total number of…
View More Are Half Of Harsh Police Encounters Due To Untreated Stress?The Family And Community Pipeline to Crime
Highlights “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans because we do not care about ourselves,…
View More The Family And Community Pipeline to CrimeMental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have Symptoms
Highlights An overview of US Department of Justice and supplemental data as to mental and emotional health and crime. Most offenders have troubled backgrounds and…
View More Mental Health Issues Drive Crime-Most Offenders Have SymptomsSending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages Crime
Highlights Offenders understand that the rules governing them have softened considerably. We are telling offenders that the justice system is backing down and that their…
View More Sending The Wrong Messages To Criminals Encourages CrimeExplaining COVID And Post Lockdown Violence
Highlights The bedrock of today’s violence could be the shock of the pandemic plus relaxed or disappearing enforcement. The increase in homicides, aggravated assaults, carjackings…
View More Explaining COVID And Post Lockdown ViolenceRecommendations-The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement
Highlights A summary of recommended improvements for law enforcement and the justice system from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.…
View More Recommendations-The President’s Commission on Law EnforcementOffender: We Do Not Care About Ourselves Or Others
Highlights Does child abuse and neglect drive crime? “I think for a lot of us, we don’t realize how we become dangerous to other humans…
View More Offender: We Do Not Care About Ourselves Or OthersMass Shooters And Everyday Violent Criminals Have Much In Common
Highlights There is no doubt that everyday criminality is far more serious in terms of injuries and fatalities than mass shootings. There seem to be…
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Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday Crime
Highlights The vast majority of our discussions about crime, mass shootings, police encounters that go wrong, treatment failures and recidivism may be explained by the…
View More Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday CrimeDoes Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?
Observations Does policing change the personalities of officers? Most would suggest that it does. “Being a cop in a isn’t for sane people. Being a…
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The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And Crime
Highlights Most offenders have forms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, brain injuries and mental illness. Cops and correctional officers wonder why situations deteriorate so quickly.…
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