"If you factor out drug use, the mentally ill population isn't more dangerous than anyone else." Yup. In fact the opposite is the case. Folk with mental illnes

"If you factor out drug use, the mentally ill population isn't more dangerous than anyone else." Yup. In fact the opposite is the case. Folk with mental illness are much more likely to be the victims of violence. See http://psychcentral.com/archives/violence.htm http://psychcentral.com/archives/violence.htm for example. Or the references from http://m.xojane.com/issues/for-the-last-time-stop-conflating-violence-and-mental-illness http://m.xojane.com/issues/for-the-last-time-stop-conflating.... The story that gets portrayed in the media of mentally ill people being a major danger to the general public is just that - a story. The facts don't back it up.