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How Mental-Health Training for Police Can Save Lives—and Taxpayer Dollars [TheAtlantic.com]

 

Every day seems to bring a new tragic story of a person with serious mental illness killed by police. In Seattle, for example, there were recently back-to-back deaths: a 30-year-old pregnant woman shot in front of her children, and a 20-year-old man killed right before his high-school graduation during what appeared to be his first psychotic episode, with a pen in his hand police mistook for a knife. Sometimes, the consequences are not death but violent confrontations, arrests, and incarceration—occurring only because of miscommunication, missed signals, and misunderstandings.



[For more of this story, written by Norm Ornstein and Steve Leifman, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/po...ayer-dollars/536520/]

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