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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Across nation, unsettling acceptance when mentally ill in crisis are killed
Even as they face a growing number of disturbed people, police often lack crisis training. And the leadership and data-gathering needed to stem the bloodshed are largely absent.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Tormented by sexual abuse, man appears to commit ‘suicide by cop’
A longtime advocate for those molested at a Falmouth school for the deaf leaves police no choice but to shoot.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Mental illness sets off a tragic downward spiral
A man charges officers with knives, forcing them to shoot him, but his father says police should have handled the situation differently.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Pulling trigger sparks upheaval in life, emotions of Maine officer
The cop who shot a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair says the emotional scars last a long time.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Limited data on police, mentally ill encounters
National data on police shootings of the mentally ill are all but nonexistent, yet there are some statistics that help to inform the issue: • The latest Police-Public Contact Survey by the U.S. Department of Justice, released last year, found that police used or threatened to use force against an estimated 1.9 percent of the […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2012
Effort to get ill woman treatment ends tragically
Feeling threatened, a Kennebunk woman calls police about her adult daughter, who is killed when she advances on an officer with a knife.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2012
Psychotic break escalates to armed confrontation
A quiet young man’s loved ones agree that police were forced to shoot him, but they wonder if a lethal outcome could have been avoided by alternative tactics.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2012
Arrest at remote cabin turns deadly, angers public
Police tactics are questioned in a 1992 case in which officers broke down a door to confront a woman with ‘a history of emotional instability.’
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PublishedDecember 8, 2012
When police pull the trigger in crisis, the mentally ill often are the ones being shot
But is all this bloodshed necessary? An examination finds missed opportunities to avoid the confrontations that have left 33 dead in the past 13 years. In the most volatile of these, unstable people face first responders who are ill-equipped to deal with them.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2012
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