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”Category: Mental Illness
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…
View More Mass Shooters And Everyday Violent Criminals Have Much In Common
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.…
View More The Criminally Insane, The Mentally Ill And CrimeOfficer, That Dog Doesn’t Have Water-Arrest That Man
Highlights There is a new DOJ document providing advice to law enforcement regarding animal cruelty. I understand how people view their pets and their belief…
View More Officer, That Dog Doesn’t Have Water-Arrest That ManBlind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts All
Highlights Offender recidivism after prison is horrendous. Programs have little to no effect. We need a research initiative similar to cancer. It should be a…
View More Blind Advocacy of Offender Rehabilitation Programs Hurts AllViolence, School Achievement and Future Criminality
Observations Schoolchildren exposed to violence have a tougher time learning. Violence also affects the success of people caught up in the criminal justice system. If…
View More Violence, School Achievement and Future CriminalityMost Offender Rehabilitation Programs Don’t Work-A Path Forward? New Federal Report
Observations Most offender rehabilitation and treatment programs don’t work. But a new federal report suggests that mental health efforts could reduce recidivism by approximately 21…
View More Most Offender Rehabilitation Programs Don’t Work-A Path Forward? New Federal ReportBrain Injuries, Mental Health, PTSD and Substance Abuse Explain Criminal Behavior
Observations You can partially explain dysfunctional criminal behavior by looking at the data on traumatic brain injuries, mental health, PTSD and substance abuse. Author Leonard…
View More Brain Injuries, Mental Health, PTSD and Substance Abuse Explain Criminal BehaviorCops, Violence, Stress and PTSD
Police Motorcycles Observations If society wants us to have compassion and understanding for people in high crime communities affected by violence, or those vicariously experiencing school…
View More Cops, Violence, Stress and PTSDPublic Opinion on School Shootings and Violence
Police Vehicle Observations For school shootings and violence, by 56 to 41 percent, Americans think we should change laws related to “school security and mental…
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