In the days since the Parkland shootings, untreated mentally ill Willard H. Broyles of Hamilton, Ala., came towards police with a knife and was shot by an officer. In Escambia, Fla., untreated, mentally ill Dale Brown fired a gun at sheriffs. And at Central Michigan University, untreated, mentally ill James Eric Davis killed his parents inside a dorm room. Crimes caused by leaving people with serious mental illness untreated are common and often preventable.

It is therefore good news that earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order establishing the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry comprised of top White House and Cabinet officials. The order reiterates his previously stated position that crime and incarceration can be reduced by improving the nation’s mental health system. The Interagency Council can prove him correct by focusing community mental health funds on treating the most seriously mentally ill and increasing the number of psychiatric hospital beds.