Posted by hello321 on October 6, 2015, at 17:21:54
In reply to Re: Shooters and Psychiatry » SLS, posted by Tomatheus on October 6, 2015, at 15:09:00
Here are the numbers for violent crime committed each year since 1960. I only looked at recent years and compared the numbers with the percent of mentally ill people that are believed to be committing violent crimes. I did this last night and I believe, at least with the numbers for 2014, I even used the lowest percent of 3% given for the ratio of violent to non violent mentally ill people. The numbers I came up with are at home, and I'm not home at the moment. But I have a general memory of the numbers for 2014. If I remember correctly, there were about 59 million mentally ill people in America for 2014, if 3% of them committed 1 violent crime in that year, that added up to over 2 million crimes. Then if only 3% of the population not deemed to be mentally ill committed 1 crime that year, that added up to a number that, when added to the amount of crimes committed by the mentally ill, then these numbers added together would have resulted in more crimes than are listed in the statistics. I can't remember how many more exactly, but it was significant.
But basically, it shows there is no way a mentally ill person is 1/3, or even any less likely to commit a violent crime. If the lowest number given, 3% of mentally ill people committed a crime, the numbers showed they are still more likely to commit a violent crime than a non mentally ill person to commit a violent crime.
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