Cops 16x more likely to kill people with untreated mental illness

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2. May not be cop mental health, but cops' informal education

A recent international study of over 200 "territories", published in the premiere journal Nature, suggested that education levels, all over the world, greatly influence attitudes about persons with mental illness. People with less education tend to see persons with mental disorders as more dangerous than they actually are. In societies across the planet, including our own, police are mostly inadequately trained to deal with persons with mental illness.

I suspect that the mechanisms that create attitudes among police that facilitate violence against the mentally ill are quite similar to mechanisms that facilitate police violence against young black men. Those are informally learned patterns of thinking that riefy bias/misperception into apparent clear and present danger and validate excessive force in the service of self-protection.