Tag: Mentally Ill Subjects: Page 16

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New Orleans PD's Crisis Unit

The Crisis Unit, manned by mental health technicians, provides the department with a team of specially trained civilians who have years of experience with the mentally ill.

November 30, 2000

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Handling the Mentally Ill: There Are No Shortcuts for Officers

One study has shown that 32 percent of the homeless, who populate our urban streets, are mentally ill and if you have homeless people in your community, you most certainly have those who are mentally ill among them.

February 29, 2000

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Mentally Ill and Dangerous

Mental illness is defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized  by abnormal functioning of the centers of the brain responsible for thought, perception, mood and behavior. And according to mental health codes, it is the substantial disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs judgement, behavior, the capacity to recognize reality or the ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life.

October 31, 1996