Killing of Michael Lee Marshall in Denver jail highlights horrific treatment of mentally ill

[ksen]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

jesus christ

 

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw

jesus christ

This just pisses me off.

 

[bleubird]

Can't wait for the cop suckers to show up here.

 

[ksen]

Give them a little time.

It's not like dirt on the victims just digs itself up you know.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

 

[RavenSky]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

he was arrested for aimlessly wandering around a cheap hotel he often stayed at

Some "criminal"

 

[Nice Squirrel]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

Most states do. Most county jails do not.

 

[laughing dog]

Look, you have to expect if you walk around with dirty laundry that the police will consider you a threat.

 

[ZiprHead]

Make sure you separate the whites (laundry).

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

...and an updated and more enlightened view of those that are mentally ill as well.

 

[Toni]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

Yes, I agree that we need to keep criminally crazy law enforcement officers in a different system althogether.


I also think that we need better ways of treating mental illness. And much better training for law enforcement who sometimes are called on to deal with people who are in serious trouble with regards to their mental health status.

 

[bleubird]

We definitely need a different system for handling criminal crazies than regular prisoners.

Yes, I agree that we need to keep criminally crazy law enforcement officers in a different system althogether.


I also think that we need better ways of treating mental illness. And much better training for law enforcement who sometimes are called on to deal with people who are in serious trouble with regards to their mental health status.

You say better training,do you mean we have training?Sounds like a wild claim.

 

[fast]

Make sure you separate the whites (laundry).

Problem solving vs problem avoidance.

Getting the man help is a problem that was not solved, but there is no longer a problem of getting that man help, so the problem has been avoided. Some might say the problem is solved since the problem is avoided, but that would be a looser meaning of "solved" than I am using.

Just curious, does separating the laundry solve or avoid the problem? It seems you prefer problem avoidance. But hey, it's just laundry, right?