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Investigating Assaults on Patients in State Care

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Most of California's developmentally disabled citizens live in group homes around the state. But there are still five state-run institutions that house about 1,700 people with severe cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism. Over the course of the last year, the nonprofit reporting group California Watch has detailed how the in-house police force responsible for these centers often fails to do basic police work after patients are attacked.

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