Debating How To Police
A Challenging Population

Those types of things that they buy into even more, basically a lot of it is about officer safety. When that officer feels safe, guess who else is safe? When that officer does not have that fear, that person with mental illness is a lot safer. So again I think that listening is key to making this really work and it won’t happen without that. I think that Link Committee is a huge step, but perhaps maybe have the mental health people on that committee take some training. Shoot-don’t-shoot scenarios—I know that opened up my eyes. I took it in Connecticut. I would have shot my own grandmother, center mass. We r