Facts First: There is no evidence that backs up the President's claim that 92% of mental institutions have closed. He appears to be conflating a decrease in the number of available beds at mental hospitals with the institutions themselves.
On Tuesday during remarks with the President of Romania, Trump reiterated his belief that mental illness is a significant cause of gun violence, lamenting how many mental institutions have closed. Trump had echoed that sentiment during an exchange with reporters on Sunday, claiming,"They closed so many -- like 92% -- of the mental institutions around this country over the years, for budgetary reasons.
More importantly, he says,"the number of residents of mental institutions dropped from a high of about 550,000 in state mental hospitals in the mid-1950s to about 100,000 today."The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, in a report on trends in psychiatric inpatient capacity from 1970 to 2014, noted that"the shortage of bed capacity is often attributed to the closure of state psychiatric hospitals.
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