Here’s your daily reminder that, if someone is having a mental health crisis, it would be better to call *literally any profession* other than the cops for help. I have 10,000% more faith in the Wawa overnight shift to deescalate that crisis, than I have in the cops.
Any state that’s serious about public health, needs to fund a proper MH crisis response department- and those funds need to come out of the police budget. #mentalhealth #policing #crisis #302 #deescalation #defundthecops