Did you know that more than half of all suspects shot and killed by police were suffering from mental illness? - This is CRAZY!
Over 300,000 Americans in prison today have a mental illness diagnosis.
That’s why today we are releasing part one of our new series, This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness. This three part series calls on the critical and immediate need for the treatment of mental health through a public health system, not the barbaric criminalization of it.
You see it almost everyday in the media now: confrontations with people that have mental illness and the police—and far too many times these encounters end with death. Or, mentally ill people find themselves in a totally abusive and dysfunctional prison system, instead of getting the appropriate care they so desperately need.
Part one of this series shows what happens when police are not properly trained to deal with people with mental illness. And shows that there is a totally doable and cost effective solution - Crisis Intervention Training - that the majority of police departments still don’t use!
This is crazy.
Mental health needs to be treated, not criminalized.
Watch the video. Learn about what we can easily do differently, if enough people push for it.
And post this video to all 2016 presidential candidates’ Facebook pages, so together we can call on them to come out for humane police trainings, not more tasers and abuse for mentally ill people!
Onward,
Robert Greenwald, President
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Posted By: Jeni Fa
Wednesday, August 26th 2015 at 1:53PM
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