Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said the “crime epidemic” in the United States can be fought by bringing back mental hospitals.
“It’s a taboo subject, but we have to talk about the hard truth,” Ramaswamy told Jesse Watters Primetime. “Violent crime has risen over precisely the period that we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions.”Ramaswamy supported his policy position, saying, “A quarter of fatal police shootings involve somebody who is mentally ill.”
The presidential hopeful acknowledged that mistakes and the mistreatment of patients in years past point to a need for a different approach. “Look at who benefited from that policy,” he said, referring to the reliance on pharmaceuticals. “It was none other than large pharmaceutical companies that had developed anti-psychotics and other forms of antidepressants.”He noted that his campaign’s charge of reviving a"sense of national identity" includes addressing people’s need for purpose, which should not be numbed with “using either pharmaceutical medications or turning to violent crime.
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