Mentally Ill and Law Enforcement

Due to cuts in the public health system, especially mental health services, law enforcement is increasingly becoming the front line in dealing with the mentally ill in communities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/as-mental-health-resources-shrink-police-become-front-line-with-lives-at-stake/2011/04/11/AFPjB15D_story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/us/05mental.html?_r=1&ref=us

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