Worth shootings when Joe Lovelace, past president of the Texas affiliate of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, gave an advance view of its agenda.
Early intervention is the latest fashion in mental health.
The policy question is whether the mental health community can be safely trusted with such power. Its record is not encouraging. People in law enforcement have long recognized that criminals share certain behavioral characteristics. John Douglas used the assumption that serial killers shared behavioral patterns to develop the FBI's successful serial killer profiling system. The fact that a person has already committed a crime is an important clue to his personality.