Big cuts to mental health services have left managing mental illness to some people who never set out to do that job. People like police officers and jail staff.
Mental Health 911: Areas with most calls have fewest services | WBEZ
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Half of all police shootings involve people with mental illness
Once upon a time, you could be pretty much as strange as you wanted to be in public and people generally left you alone. Police might accost you to move along, but you never had to fear for your life from the police just for being homeless, weird, or acting erratically. Sure, they might take […]