Rachel Streiff

It made the problem worse and the results were tragic.

The prosecution's argument was schizophrenia doesn't cause violence.

So, I mean, that's just a blatant lie and misinformation.

And the family was just under the belief that this person was an evil monster.

and not to take away anything from their terrible loss and hardship.

But I wish, I could wish I could turn that anger and that heartache for the real problem that was a lack of treatment and a lack of access to care and a system that has failed this family.

And we see caregivers, we've had families die, parents especially die because of this terrible lack of care in their loved one.

Crystal Fox is a great example, but there's others.

There's a young man, Alejandro Gonzalez, in Arizona.

You can look up the headline.

Had serious mental illness, was discharged from jail, probably with a day of medication and very likely no support.

Runs out of his medications, kills his mother.

And who's to blame there?

It's not the young man that got a no-fault brain disorder.

So education is so desperately needed at the society level.

Again, we understood this in the 1960s.

We understood not guilty by reason of insanity.

And we took care of these individuals.

We understood the danger.

Somehow that's gotten lost, gotten lost for a lot of reasons.