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SMART JUSTICE – Mental Health Police in Texas

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Juvenile + Criminal JusticeBy Mike Tikkanen March 4, 2015

A friend sent me this today and I think it would solve many of our nations troubles and is worth sharing (widely). San Antonio Texas and Bexar County have saved 50 Million dollars and made life safer, more just, and much kinder for their citizens. The jails aren’t full today because the officers are dealing with the mental health issues that are getting people shot and beat up by other police departments.

Instead of facing more awful stories about how police departments are causing their communities to fear them, this department has recognized that jail is ineffective in treating mentally unhealthy people involved in low level crime and they came up with a better way. Read the whole story below (with audio).

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In Whose Best Interest?

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, CASA, GAL and Child ProtectionBy Mike Tikkanen July 19, 2008

“If you measure the success of our institutions by what it is they actually create versus what they were designed to create”, (the following are my words) our Child Protection system creates mentally unhealthy youth, future felons, and pregnant teenagers.

Day Care; The Bargain

All Posts from Kids at Risk Action, Day Care and EducationBy Mike Tikkanen February 8, 2007

Because the waiting list for subsidized daycare is one year into the future for the father of the children I represent (as a county guardian ad-Litem) there is a good chance that his two small children will be taken from him by the county and adopted by someone he has never met.
It is also possible that he may not be able to visit his children if they are adopted.

Tag Archives: substance abuse

SMART JUSTICE – Mental Health Police in Texas

In Whose Best Interest?

Day Care; The Bargain