33 Years After the ADA, Our Legal System Still Victimizes Disabled People

Communities are far better served when public safety systems help them avoid traumatizing interactions with police.

When police officers found Daniel Prude naked and wandering the streets of Rochester, New York, as snow was falling the evening of March 23, 2020, they did not call for social workers or mental health experts. They pointed a Taser at him and demanded he lie on the ground. Prude had run out of his brother’s house during a mental health crisis, and after a few minutes of sitting handcuffed on the...

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