July 2012: Cuts to Mental Health Services Could Lead to More Spree Killings
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July 2012: Cuts to Mental Health Services Could Lead to More Spree Killings
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/news/2012/07/31/11871/cuts-to-mental-health-services-could-lead-to-more-spree-killings/ …
"In 2010, Governor Schwarzenegger announced a 60% cut in funding for community mental health programs..."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298229/ …
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It has been proven over the years that preventative services (food, shelter, housing, medical) for the homeless and mentally ill reduces overall costs to the city so doing, including in the form of crime control. Project 50 is such an example in Los Angeles, where the most hardcore homeless were taken from Skid Row and placed into long-term housing. A big success. When general services are denied those who badly need them, it is logical that problems will increase. I worry about republicans and the lobbyists behind them purposely socially engineering problems through kicking around the weak and using the resulting issues as a basis of pushing the policies and development they'd wanted all along (private, for-profit prisons, drug war, militarized police, drones in our skies, it goes on and on...)
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