Washington Navy Yard Tragedy

DC Reed/Director

Washington Navy Yard Tragedy and the Upcoming Politics

The deaths yesterday at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC are a tragedy. How could this, like other recent such horrific events have been prevented? Many will ask that.

The answers are in how we deal with repeated violent and mentally ill people while respecting the rights and privacy of non-violent mentally ill. Sadly we err too often on the side of privacy rights and dangerous people walk free. Agencies and institutions discharge, transfer, and otherwise ‘kick them to the curb’ so that they are no longer ‘their’ problem.