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Originally Posted by Captain Otto
I think you're pretty caught up in the media circus surrounding police and how they deal with "wellness" checks. While mentally ill people have been shot, it is by far, not the usual outcome. Police respond to literally thousands of welfare checks or suicide complaints or general mental illness calls every week ranging from 8 year olds all the way on up. I would say that the police deal with the vast majority (like 99.99%) in a professional fashion with little to no force. I am not saying it doesn't happen, I am simply stating that your words have meaning.
Police contain situations like this all the time. You just don't hear about it because it's not newsworthy. What is newsworthy is that .01% of the time when someone with a mental illness gets shot.
Going forward, I think that's the danger of having discussions or opinions without all the facts and/or relying on a newsfeed for your facts.
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What facts am I missing here I’m interested in being educated.
Is 99.99% an acceptable rate of failure? A 1/10,000 chance of killing someone in my opinion is too high of risk and should be considered unacceptable.