America’s Sane Are Violent

Posted on September 19, 2006 in Violence

An analysis published last month in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that people with severe mental illness committed about 5 percent of the violent crimes in Sweden, though they made up a small fraction of the population. The United States, which has higher crime rates, has a much smaller proportion of crime attributable to the mentally ill than Sweden, experts said.

Excerpted from here.

This doesn’t say a lot for the sane in these United States.