Brooklyn Community Leaders React to Taser Death
Protestors gather outside the building where mentally ill man died
Thursday, September 25, 2008
New York, NY –
State Sen. Eric Adams is a frequent critic of the NYPD.
He says it's one thing to discipline individual police officers but the problem of how to interact with the mentally ill is system-wide.
ADAMS: We don't have an effective policy in the city and state of New York of how to deal with the large number of men and women who are no longer institutionalized.
REPORTER: He says too many people with mental illness are living at home when they need professional supervision.
This is the second case of a person with mental illness killed in a confrontation with police since last November.
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