In El Cajon, a police officer opened fire on Alfred Olango within a minute of arriving on scene following multiple 911 calls by Olango’s sister, who described her brother as mentally unbalanced. Beyond formal teams, loads of departments including Sacramento’s are always training all officers in de escalation techniques that stress giving an agitated suspect time and distance while not aggressively rushing in for an immediate arrest. Those officers are usually in shorter supply, and rather often they are unavailable in a cr, as happened in Sacramento and the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, where police encountered men with mental difficulties and continued shooting them to death. So if they practically were always mentally ill.
It’s an important thing the court system has reach ‘via criminal’ action to convince people to get treatment if they would voluntarily seek treatment on their own.
Some are academy award nominees and see specifically how/what/ to say to convince ANY MHP they were always mentally ill. Thus, those who have criminal actions while mentally ill could be given a big deal more good than jail time.
For instance, people understand IF they fail, the alternate is much less attractive.