By Allison Levitsky, KALW Crosscurrents
Jacob Savage almost became a cop. He spent high school and college going on police ride-alongs, wearing a uniform and a bulletproof vest.
But, he says, “eventually, you start to see the unfortunate reality of the system’s criminalization of mental illness, and how certain crimes, like substance abuse-related crimes, or even petty theft and things like that, are really just symptoms of untreated mental illness.”
Read the complete story at KALW Crosscurrents.
