The investigation will assess whether Oklahoma has appropriate measures in place to help those suffering with mental illness so that admissions to psychiatric facilities and calling 911 can be minimized.
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Buffalo Shooter Payton Granden was allegedly influenced by anonymous, unmoderated websites and platforms such as 4chan, 8kun and Reddit.
Vewer than half of the children who died by suicide in the state between 2016 and 2020 had received mental health services at some point, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.
Despite settling a civil rights lawsuit two years ago and agreeing to place teens in foster homes or with relatives instead of emergency facilities such as youth shelters, New Mexico has yet to build an accessible, statewide, community-based behavioral health system.
While crisis response teams have been slower to catch on in rural America, nationally the approach is slowly but surely making inroads to these hard-to-reach areas.
Some departments tell officers it’s better sometimes to walk away and avoid escalation. But mental health experts disagree.
Utah, Virginia and Washington allow people to ban themselves from impulsively buying a gun. Many more states could follow their lead.
The bipartisan-supported Public Safety Officer Support Act, which allows the families of officers who die by suicide to be eligible to receive death benefits is a long-overdue first step at changing police culture, writes Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum.
Rebecca Lanis said that her father’s mental health worsened as he embraced the conspiratorial theories of QAnon, after Donald Trump lost the presidential election in 2020.
In Seattle’s King County Correctional Facility, six people have passed away in the last 12 months before the most recent suicide of Allen McNutt in August 2022, four of them also by suicide.