![]() On Nov 4, 2016, 35-year-old Manuel Rosales, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, fatally shot 41-year-old NYPD Sgt. 16, 2017, 46-year-old Rudy Garcia, who had a history of schizophrenia and was off his medications, fatally shot Detective Jerry Walker during a confrontation with police. Mainhart during a traffic stop early that morning near the home, which is about 65 miles (105 kilometers) west of Little Rock. ![]() ![]() Mentally ill James Arthur Bowden, 42, gunned down Yell County Sheriff’s Lt. Barnabus Hospital where he was discharged after just a few hours. When he started to deteriorate, his girlfriend convinced him to go to St. Bonds was an untreated schizophrenic with a criminal history. On July 5, NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia was ambushed and killed by Alexander Bonds, who was in turn killed by responding officers. The laws have been endorsed by organizations that advocate for people with mental illness (NAMI) organizations that advocate for public safety (National Sheriff’s Association) organizations that care about saving money and others. Those laws keep public, patients, and LEOs safer while saving money. They are not presented to demonize people with mental illness, but to show Law Enforcement Officers the importance of working for AOT laws (like Laura’s Law in California, Kendra’s Law in New York, etc). The enclosed incidents of Law Enforcement Officers being killed by people with untreated severe mental illness are taken from the Treatment Advocacy Center database of “Preventable Tragedies”. AOT dramatically reduces arrest, incarceration, homelessness, and suicide all of which take up police resources. If the statue does not require dangerousness, there are fewer homicides. A recent study found homicides are correlated to civil commitment statues. The courts can also order the mental health system to provide care. AOT laws allow courts to order people who have a severe mental illness and past history of violence to accept treatment as a condition of living in the community. ![]() Assisted Outpatient Treatment laws returns the care of the most severely mentally ill back to the mental health system. It also, too frequently, results in police being injured or killed by people with untreated severe mental illness.Īlmost all these cases (below) might have been prevented if Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) laws were in place. This too frequently results in people with untreated severe mental illness being injured, incarcerated and sometimes killed by police. It forces Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) to step into a dangerous situation if the untreated become “danger to self or others”. People with severe mental illness are being routinely abandoned by the mental health system.
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