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A caregiver feeds a patient at the
Lanterman Developmental Center
in Pomona. |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has assembled a unique
police force
to protect about 1,800 of its most vulnerable patients – men and women
with cerebral palsy, severe autism and other mental disabilities who
live in state institutions and require round-the-clock monitoring and
protection from abuse.
But an investigation by California Watch
has found that detectives and patrol officers at the state's five
board-and-care institutions
routinely fail to conduct basic police work even when patients die under mysterious circumstances.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/24/4287227/report-officials-fail-to-investigate.html#storylink=cpy
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