Article: Police Confront Rising Number of Mentally Ill Suspects

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one out of every 17 Americans suffer from serious mental illness. This is about a normal high school class person. These mentally handicapped people live different lives and in some cases they can not fully understand what is going on around them. These people need more time and patience than ordinary people need in any particular situation. Therefore, the police need to deal with them differently when signing contracts.

In Phoenix, a training program was introduced in 2001 to teach staff about mental illness and how to respond appropriately to those at stake, but the use of force by military police for mental illness has been increasing since 1998 It tripled during the year. Still it continues to rise. In 2002, in the 12 surveys of 30 long-term mentally disabled people from physical restraint to the conclusion of shooting collided with the Phoenix police, there were 430 shooting cases of representatives of Los Angeles County between 1987 and 1997 It was investigated. Suicide investigators were judged to occupy 11% of all police shooting and 13% of all fatal shots. In the survey, it seems to be shot by the police in particular, possesses a deadly weapon, seems to have possession, possibly escalates the encounter, and is suspected to make a law enforcement officer shoot. There.

Allowing mental health providers to contact law enforcement agencies is a very troublesome policy. Police will be able to monitor people with mental illness and they may. People who are not being treated with severe mental illness may be 16 times more likely to be a law enforcement agency and may become fatal. Approximately one quarter of deadly police shoot victims are suffering from psychosis, and if the US police have the authority to monitor psychosis patients, these numbers may rise . It is natural that blacks with psychiatric disorders are more dangerous than Caucasians with mental illness.