I am sure this is very true. I think a lot of mentally ill people appear intoxicated or on drugs. Police brutality is endemic.
by DreamsEmpty and boring is one side of the coin, but these legitimate outcomes also bring new possibilities.
Can a person have a realistic view of reality without any desensitisation to it? I do not understand how that would occur, it's inevitable. Numbness is the wrong word then, as it assumes complete detachment. I'm talking about a partial detachment. You're both detached and attached, in the chains of the human condition, but simultaneously free from it. Does that make any sense?
i would be interested in how you personally have dealt with these issues, if you would like to share?
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/10/half_of_people_shot_by_police_are_mentally_ill_investigation_finds/
Half of people shot by police are mentally ill, investigation finds
An investigation by the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram has found that a disturbingly high percentage of individuals shot by police suffer from mental health problems. There are no federal statistics on police shootings of mentally ill people, but according to the investigation published this week, “a review of available reports indicates that at least half of the estimated 375 to 500 people shot and killed by police each year in this country have mental health problems.â€
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-dangers-of-calling-the-cops-on-the-mentally-ill
THE DANGERS OF CALLING THE POLICE ON THE MENTALLY ILL
Deploying the cops against anyone in your family is not a decision to be taken lightly. Any time the authorities intervene there's a chance of someone getting seriously injured or killed, but cops and the mentally ill are a particularly deadly combination. Police in Fullerton, California, famously beat and killed Kelly Thomas, a homeless man with schizophrenia, in 2011; this March officers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shot a mentally ill homeless man in the back. And it’s not just wandering indigents who are killed this way. In too many incidents to list here, mentally ill individuals have ended SWAT standoffs by provoking cops into shooting them. By some estimates, half of of the 500-some victims of police shootings in America each year suffer from mental illness. Shootings like the one that Elliot Rodger perpetrated in California are relatively rare compared to incidents that end with a police bullet in the body of a mentally ill person—shouldn’t we be talking about policies that solve the latter problem as well as the former?
There are shitloads of these types of reports... I will post more eventually, just starting a thread on it...