Shooting Death Becomes a Plea for Training; Police Who Spot Mental Illness Can Avoid Crises
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 22, 2004
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Shooting death becomes a plea for training
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Shooting Death Becomes a Plea for Training; Police Who Spot Mental Illness Can Avoid Crises
They warned that something like this would happen. But no one imagined that it would come so soon.
When more than 200 law and health professionals gathered in late August to decide how to best help people in Milwaukee with mental illness, the top priority was clear: Teach the police how to better handle people in a crisis, or something horrible will happen.Less than two weeks later, it did.Michael Blucher, an 18-year-old roofer suffering from schizophrenia, was shot to death by police. Tommy Wilson, the officer who killed Blucher, was so overcome...See the full content of this document
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