[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Herzog/Mathews

[Jeremy Kahn]

looks good. Nice, short and to the point.

--jeremy, who's home on holiday today

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Veeble a rebel you shun!
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 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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