Policing the Mentally Ill by: Chief Michael Biasotti

"Treatment before tragedy …

New Windsor (NY) Police Department Chief Michael Biasotti, former President of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police, writes in Law Enforcement Today: 


is important to people with serious mental illness and their families. But families sometimes fail to recognize it is also something police have a vested interest in..." Our families recognize what you are saying, Chief Biasotti. Thank you to NAMI New York State for recognizing your good work. We all have a vested interest in a safer society for all.  Treatment Before Tragedy

"Today there are approximately 35,000 mentally ill persons in public hospitals. However ten times that number, 350,000 are in prisons and jails."

- See more at: http://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/2014/11/20/policing-the-mentally-ill/#sthash.xE3pfJe0.Kt7Pqo3O.dpuf

ABC this is NOT OK! Disney/ABC Marginalizes Mental Illness In Tasteless Modern Family Episode

I am writing to ask why Disney/ABC Television ridiculed and marginalized our nation’s veterans and millions of other Americans during the October 29th broadcast of its prime time television show, Modern Family.

Pete Earley writes 2 spot-on articles this week about the distasteful, insulting and discriminating “Modern Family” show portraying asylums and mental illness as funny.

Mr. ABC executive, I challenge you to live in my shoes just one day. Try living my life … ask me if I'm amused by my son's horrible 21-years of documented brain disease? Imagine watching your son's brain deterioate, due to civil rights laws that keep him from gaining access to treatment? Please click here: http://abc.go.com/feedback and provide your thoughts on how families and individuals coping with the most challenging and deadly disease on the planet deserve an apology! Thanks, GG Burns  

BY PETE EARLEY

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 An Open Letter to Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair Disney Media Networks President, Disney/ABC Television Group

Dear Ms. Sweeney,

Twenty-two veterans commit suicide each day in our nation. Nearly all have a diagnosable mental illness. Many have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that they suffered fighting for your safety and freedom. Yet, the writers of Modern Family:Halloween 3: AwesomeLand decided to make these proud warriors the butt of belittling jokes. Read more here: http://www.peteearley.com/2014/10/30/stigmatizing-modern-family-disneyabc-marginalizes-mental-illness/

Small Steps: 50,000 Read My Complaint About Modern Family; Express Anger and Disappointment

read more here: http://www.peteearley.com/2014/11/01/small-steps-50000-read-complaint-modern-family-express-anger-disappointment/