White House considers new project seeking links between mental health and violent behavior

[edpc]

The White House has been briefed on a proposal to develop a way to identify early signs of changes in people with mental illness that could lead to violent behavior.

Supporters see the plan as a way President Trump could move the ball forward on gun control following recent mass shootings as efforts seem to be flagging to impose harsher restrictions such as background checks on gun purchases.

The proposal is part of a larger initiative to establish a new agency called the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency or HARPA, which would sit inside the Health and Human Services Department. Its director would be appointed by the president, and the agency would have a separate budget, according to three people with knowledge of conversations around the plan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/

[edpc]

Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun

The document lists several technologies that could be employed to help collect information, including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Geoffrey Ling, the lead scientific adviser on HARPA, told reporters Thursday the plan would require enormous amounts of data and “scientific rigor.”

He added: “Everybody would be a volunteer. We’re not inventing new science here. We’re analyzing it so we can develop new approaches.” The White House declined to provide the Daily Caller News Foundation with a statement but sources told WaPo that Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal — it is unclear if he has seen the Safe Home idea.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/22/trump-gun-control-background/

[EdJames]

Yeah.... no thanks.  Take that "plan" and go pound sand.

[edpc]

It’s the inevitable future abuse that concerns me. Look to what became of FISA and other domestic surveillance, after the Patriot Act was passed, renewed, and expanded.

[EdJames]

It’s the inevitable future abuse that concerns me. Look to what became of FISA and other domestic surveillance, after the Patriot Act was passed, renewed, and expanded.

Indeed.

[truth_seeker]

Our National Security and Law Enforcement Intelligence operatives, monitor various communication souces, to look for dangerous people.

One version is the FBI profile.

Is it 100% accurate? Of course not.

Law Enforcement asks the public, "See Something, Say Something."

To law enforcement, I say "Hear Something, Do Something." 

[austingirl]

Having worked in state psychiatric hospitals for court-committed patients, I have seen a lot of mental illness and I sure don't trust the government to seek anything including a link to violence.

On a side note, the state of Texas seems to have adopted some SanFran lingo. They now say their hospitals are for...wait for it...people involved in the justice system. I can't recall their old description but I think it was something like court-committed.

[Sanguine]

Having worked in state psychiatric hospitals for court-committed patients, I have seen a lot of mental illness and I sure don't trust the government to seek anything including a link to violence.

On a side note, the state of Texas seems to have adopted some SanFran lingo. They now say their hospitals are for...wait for it...people involved in the justice system. I can't recall their old description but I think it was something like court-committed.

Social workers.  A different breed for sure.