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I won't suggest that the above comment should be removed for being unsuitable and offensive. I don't generally support such censorship.But it is staggeringly ill-informed and unhelpful. The glib equation of mental illness with violence is simply false, and panders to the tabloids. People with mental health problems - including schizphrenia - are more likely to be victims of violence than prepetrators. The effect of stopping one schizophrenic from murdering someone would be precisely the same as the effect of stopping a murder by a Welshman, or a taxi driver, or a bald man. We have not closed our mental health institutions, only the 150 yrs old mega-hospitals, and we now have as many people living in residential care and supported accommodation with at least some dignity as we had on the back wards of the old bins. As for locking up peole who haven't committed a crime, in the name of a prediction we can't rely on and a treatment that doesn't exist - need I go on?