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   Police Confront Rising Number of Mentally Ill Suspects   
   By FERNANDA SANTOS and ERICA GOODE   
   April 1, 2014   
   ALBUQUERQUE -- James Boyd, a homeless man camping in the Sandia Foothills   
   here, could hear the commands of the police officers who were trying to move   
   him out.   
      
   The problem was that Mr. Boyd, 38, had a history of mental illness, and so was   
   living in a different reality, one in which he was a federal agent and not   
   someone to be bossed around.   
      
   "Don't attempt to give me, the Department of Defense, another directive," he   
   told the officers. A short while later, the police shot and killed him, saying   
   he had pulled out two knives and threatened their lives.   
      
   The March 16 shooting, captured in a video taken with an officer's helmet   
   camera and released by the Albuquerque Police Department, has stirred protests   
   and some violence in Albuquerque and prompted the Federal Bureau of   
   Investigation to begin an inquiry    
   into the death. But it has also focused attention on the growing number of   
   people with severe mental disorders who, in the absence of adequate mental   
   health services, are coming in contact with the criminal justice system,   
   sometimes with deadly    
   consequences.   
      
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