Posts Tagged ‘mental illness’
The Line: How Police Officers Handle People Experiencing Mental Illness
November 17, 2017 – The Santa Fe New Mexican reported this week on the response by a crisis negotiation team in the police department to a call with a man in crisis who was schizophrenic. Anthony Benavidez was shot and killed by police officers after barricading himself inside his apartment. The response by police is raising…
Read MoreEpisode 735 | Jeffrey Swanson On Guns And Mental Illness – Web Extra
NMiF Producer Megan Kamerick continues her conversation with medical sociologist Jeffrey Swanson about guns and mental illness with a discussion about how prisons are now the largest mental health providers.
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