Amid Fears of Crime and Mental Illness, States Move to Expand Forced Treatment Advocates of assisted outpatient treatment say it could reduce homelessness and mass shootings. Critics call it incarceration by another name. Caleb Brennan
What Public Safety Without Police Looks Like From San Francisco to Philadelphia, cities across the country are creating fully unarmed response teams to address emergencies that used to call for cops. Jerry Iannelli, Joshua Vaughn
He Attempted Suicide and Ended Up In Jail Arthur’s story speaks to a troubling tendency in the legal system, reform advocates say: to treat mental health crises as criminal matters, rather than matters of public health. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
