“When you continue to see a pattern like that, and all these different resources are getting involved to try to mediate as best they can, and the person just still chooses not to [get help], then you end up with where we were at,” he said. “It could have been non-criminal if they would have actually taken the help from last time and continued on a healthy living course.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 20, 2019 04:41 UTC