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www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
New York City

New York Spends Millions on Mental Health Street Teams. Do They Work?

New York City's program to treat mentally ill homeless people has not been operating effectively, according to an audit.
Fewer than a third of the people in the program regularly took their prescribed medications, and one in four never met with a psychiatrist or nurse. [ more ]
Sacramento Bee
5 months ago
California

A jury deadlock brings mistrial in case of an ex-Los Angeles police officer in a 2019 fatal shooting

A mistrial was declared in the case against an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill man in a Costco store in 2019.
The jury was deadlocked and the California attorney general's office has not yet announced whether they plan to retry the case. [ more ]
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