Mental Illness and Homeland Security
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Since 9/11, authorities have linked approximately 5,000 murders in the U.S. to people who suffer from the most severe mental illnesses. That’s 5,000 more deaths in the U.S. than have been attributed to our most-feared terrorist enemy, Al-Qaeda.
In this episode of The Big Picture on Security, I talk with Mary Zdanowicz, the executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating public policy barriers to the timely and effective treatment of mental illnesses.
Zdanowicz discusses in detail the problems with the nation’s mental health care system — a system that has failed to keep us, our children, and even the mentally ill safe from harm. Solving this problem, says Zdanowicz, is one of the most urgent homeland security policy issues facing the nation today. And information technologies can play a major role in the solution, she says.
Tags: 9/11, mental illness, The Big Picture on Security, Mary Zdanowicz, Treatment Advocacy Center
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May 19th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I would really like to see any reliable and valid data to back up this absurd claim of 5,000 murders since 9/11 by people with psychiatric histories. How many murders have there been total in the U.S. since 9/11? Looking at the DOJ website, a rough estimate would be a little under 100,000, so is anyone really claiming that people with psychiatric histories are responsible for over 5% of all homicides in this country? Show me the data.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Claiming that people with psychiatric labels are responsible for 5,000 homicides since 9/11 is a dangerous and slanderous lie. Show me the data, because the DOJ homicide statistics sure don’t back up this absurd and slanderous claim meant to stigmatize people with mental illness.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
These “public policy barriers”, you speak of so unctuously; what are these barriers of which you speak?
May 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I think it is important to note that the statistics refer to people with UNTREATED mental illnesses (two types in particular). This is not about everyone with mental illness, but two specific types (the two most severe) and those who go untreated due to the failure of the medical system. If there is a target and victim in this piece, it is the US mental health system, which has failed these people.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Who did this study, what qualifications do they have?
How many people died from poverty in the U.S since 9/11?
If you are so worried about mental health and homeland security, why don’t you take money out of the military and put it in to supports in the community.
In terms of violent crimes by the mentally ill, it has been proven time and time again that the mentally ill are more often victims of violent crimes than commit them.
as a community the mentally ill commit no more crimes than any other community.
In terms of murders, why doesn’t the united states cut down on the sale and distribution of guns and stop trying to blame marginailzed communites including the mentally ill.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Another shoe falls in this Governments march toward Nazi-ish fascism.
Destroy privacy
Remove Civil Liberties
Separate society into favorable and non-favorable groups via Stigmatization.
Round Up Non Favorables
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:59 am
The person who wrote this is an obvious paranoid schizophrenic. They should be locked up force fed drugs and given electro shock therapy until they are a vegetable.