“The cost of housing people and providing then with mental health services is actually lower than cycling them through emergency rooms, homeless shelters, and jails, as numerous studies have shown. The drive to criminalize has more to do with ideology than effectiveness: the mentally ill are seen not as victims of the neoliberal restructuring of public health services but as a dangerous source of disorder to be controlled through intensive and aggressive policing. Any attempt to reduce the negative effects of policing on this population must directly challenge this ideological approach to policing” Mental HealthMental IllnessCriminal JusticeIncarcerationPolicingPolice ViolenceSevere Mental Illness Author:Alex Vitale
“The use of guns and militarized equipment undermines the basic ethos of school as a learning environment and replaces it with fear and control.” Criminal JusticePolicingSchool To Prison Pipeline Author:Alex Vitale