mental health
Black Lives Matter vigil mourns Derek Hayden, shot by Seattle police
March 1, 2021On Feb. 16, a Port of Seattle police officer called city police saying a man with a knife had cut himself and appeared to be suicidal. A short time later, Derek Hayden was killed by police...
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Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians strike for patient care
December 19, 2019Some 4,000 mental health clinicians began a one-week strike Dec. 16 demanding health care parity.
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‘Joker’ exposes the broken class system that creates its own monsters
October 4, 2019“Kill the rich– a new movement?” - Joker
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Rise in suicide attempts in Texas prisons alarms advocates
April 12, 2019Prisoner rights advocates point to the rise in suicide attempts in Texas prisons as part of a national trend in which people behind bars increasingly have serious mental health needs that are not being addressed inside...
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Parkland students’ manifesto errs on privacy and emotional disabilities
April 12, 2018Police officers may have some limited training in psychology, but this hardly qualifies them to make decisions best left to medical professionals.
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