tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post1964599972739415920..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Austin PD shoots too many mental-health patients, Top Bexar jailer resigns amidst crime spree by subordinates, and other storiesGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54293785175057949352018-10-02T17:43:05.301-05:002018-10-02T17:43:05.301-05:00No need for sarcasm. This has been field tested su...No need for sarcasm. This has been field tested successfully. In Dallas, the mental health professionals are the only ones to directly interact with the person in crisis and there have not been issues with the safety of those folks, nor have they killed anyone with mental illness. Overall, the model is a success across many fronts. We should always be looking for ways to make people safer, and this is a good one.Kathy Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09064199659472176333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-73386486242727581332018-10-01T17:26:52.237-05:002018-10-01T17:26:52.237-05:00Abel Renya was aggressive and that I liked more so...Abel Renya was aggressive and that I liked more so than the bozo Henry Garza in Bell County. Lots of crime in Bell County. If you averaged them two DA's out, you'd have an on par DA. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-28714212773608658332018-10-01T15:06:44.735-05:002018-10-01T15:06:44.735-05:00I would not even hire DA Abel Reyna to fix a flat ...I would not even hire DA Abel Reyna to fix a flat on a wheelbarrow much less as an attorney! The guy has a very serious Napoleon complex which received care and feeding as he ran the McLennan county courthouse as a casino with his finger on the Scales of Justice and his hand in the property room coke stash. Where is that FBI investigator assigned to this mess anyway?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-12129227886855712622018-10-01T15:01:46.221-05:002018-10-01T15:01:46.221-05:00I would not even hire DA Abel Reyna to fix a flat ...I would not even hire DA Abel Reyna to fix a flat on a wheelbarrow much less as an attorney! The guy has a very serious Napoleon complex which received care and feeding as he ran the McLennan county courthouse as a casino with his finger on the Scales of Justice and his hand in the property room coke stash. Where is that FBI investigator assigned to this mess anyway?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21156861413994484582018-10-01T11:17:36.795-05:002018-10-01T11:17:36.795-05:00Please be advised: You will see some lame duck las...Please be advised: You will see some lame duck last minute maneuvers from outgoing DA Abel Reyna in hopes that SOMEBODY in State government will give him a new job. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-69923026235425500242018-10-01T06:56:42.575-05:002018-10-01T06:56:42.575-05:00If Austin PD is shooting more people in "ment...If Austin PD is shooting more people in "mental crisis," is that why the legislature avoids getting together in one place except for every other year?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-36198773129252023922018-10-01T05:54:52.041-05:002018-10-01T05:54:52.041-05:00I say let the Meadows Foundation plan be the lead ...I say let the Meadows Foundation plan be the lead on those mental health calls. I propose taking it a step further and allowing the mental health professionals be the only one to contact the mental-health patients, while the officers wait in or near their patrol cars. I imagine the non-uniformed response would probably result in some of the mental-health workers being injured or killed, but at least the mental-health patients will not be harmed by the police. (Sarcasm)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-52387168563518302262018-10-01T05:25:51.016-05:002018-10-01T05:25:51.016-05:00More amazing and poignant, independent news, from ...More amazing and poignant, independent news, from the king of it all: Grits For Breakfast!<br /><br /><br />Definition of Poignant from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poignant<br />1a(1) : painfully affecting the feelings : PIERCING<br />(2) : deeply affecting : TOUCHING<br /><br />Also:<br />MOVING, IMPRESSIVE, POIGNANT, AFFECTING, TOUCHING, PATHETIC mean having the power to produce deep emotion. MOVING may apply to any strong emotional effect including thrilling, agitating, saddening, or calling forth pity or sympathy.SOFAQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06314771579895547336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-11390897684419035522018-09-30T20:06:17.022-05:002018-09-30T20:06:17.022-05:00If true, that's all the more reason, Will, to ...If true, that's all the more reason, Will, to implement the Meadows Foundation plan to have MH professionals take the lead on those calls instead of cops.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-32211860653762033862018-09-30T15:19:59.627-05:002018-09-30T15:19:59.627-05:00Austin has the Austin State Hospital within its ci...Austin has the Austin State Hospital within its city limits and probably others that once existed and others that I'm unaware of. The mental-health patients, consumers or crazies (which ever your flavor) leave the mental-health facilities and have no other place to go or family willing to take them back. Therefore many of the mental-health patients stay, breed, commit crime, etc in Austin so it should be no surprise to anyone that Austin PD has to encounter those mental-health patients resulting in injury or death.Willnoreply@blogger.com