Mentally ill does not equal “less-dangerous”. In actuality it
can definitely equate to “more-dangerous” due to lack of stability, or impaired
cognitive processing. It is a very tough position for officers to be in because
Officer-Safety and the safety of others is paramount with everything else being
a distant second. A mentally ill person’s decisions/actions often dictate the
outcome. Simply, it is unrealistic to expect officers to be able to talk-down
everyone. It takes two for a conversation to take place and when one side of that
equation is unable or unwilling, and the situation is evolving rapidly, it
place the officer in a hard place.. It is seldom black/white, but much more often gray..
“Dash-cam video captured an officer-involved shooting in
June involving a Seattle Police officer and mentally ill man who charged him
with a knife…”
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