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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I'm probably being pretty loose with the term, or maybe too specific, but I'm referring to mental health checks. Someone who is or might be experiencing some sort of mental health crisis which could include being a danger to themselves or others. I realise it's different in different jurisdictions and is handled differently in different areas as well.
Because they obviously can turn dangerous or violent, I like the areas where both police officers and mental health professionals attend, but at 100 or so per day (as WhiteTiger pointed out) and 1000s per year, you definitely need more mental health professionals to make that happen.
I know Sweden tried something where they sent out units without any police, and found that about 50% of situations ended up requiring the police. So obviously having a police officer in addition to someone trained to deal with mental health crisis is ideal. That, or significantly improving the training of officers for that kind of thing.
Just to be clear, when I'm mentioning what you could do to remove or reduce the risk of poor outcomes even further, I'm not suggesting that's definitely what should be done.
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This is one of the major problems with the 'De-Fund' the Police movement.
Yeah, you want Health Care and Social workers and people more in tune with Mental Health issues dealing with these cases but....thats after they've been de-escalated.
You're often still going to need some well-trained Cops with you just to get to the point where these people can receive proper help.
Its almost like the Mentally Ill arent exactly notoriously Mentally stable. Who woulda thunk?