[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Herzog/Mathews

[Susan]

Thumbs up.

* Mathews with two "t"s

* watch the quotation marks (on this and the other story)

- Susan

At 12:20 PM 7/5/02, jl at u.washington.edu wrote:
>Subtitle: POLICE ARE NOT MENTAL HEALTH WORKERS
>Title: Holes in the Social Service Safety Net
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>Last month King County deputy Richard Herzog was killed with his own 
>weapon while attempting to apprehend the mentally ill, highly agitated 
>Ronald Mathews,  recently released from prison on a drug sentence. The 
>incident, termed an "execution" in mainstream news coverage, has raised 
>questions on our newswire about our community's <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15527">lack of 
>social services</a> for the mentally ill  and the tremendous burden placed 
>on police forces untrained as <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15586">mental 
>health workers</a>. Another writer argues that haphazardly-administered 
>prison <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15607">drug 
>treatment programs</a> may have helped lead to this incident, and calls 
>for "a serious debate about the manner in which psychiatric drugs are 
>being pushed on inmates and suspected criminals."
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