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Point of Law
Video: Articulating Interactions with Mentally Ill Subjects Using Mnemonics
Attorney Missy O'Linn discusses the mnemonics that can help officers explain their actions after an incident involving a mentally ill or unstable subject.
March 8, 2019
Patrol
Contacting Mentally Ill Subjects
Fill your tool belt with things you need to keep yourself safe when dealing with the mentally ill. Each piece of information gathered before arriving on scene is another tool you may need.
November 30, 2008
Patrol
Mentally Ill Subjects
Research shows that approximately five percent of U.S. citizens have a serious mental illness. What this means for law enforcement is that approximately seven percent of police contacts involve a mentally ill person and 10 to 15 percent of incarcerated persons are mentally ill.
May 31, 2007
Patrol
Ohio Enacts Law to Create LE Database of Mentally Ill Subjects
Three years after Clark County (Ohio) Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Hopper was ambushed and killed by a deranged man, a new rule went into effect Wednesday requiring courts to notify police about violent offenders with a mental illness.
January 1, 2014
Patrol
California Officer Slashed in Face During Encounter with Mentally Ill Man
A California Highway Patrol officer was slashed in the face with a sharp object early Tuesday in the town of Livingston during an encounter with a reportedly mentally ill man. The man was Tasered and taken into custody.
June 25, 2015
Patrol
How to Talk to the Mentally Ill
There’s not enough underpaid mental health professionals to go around, and family members eventually reach their own breaking points. This leaves society’s de facto field shrinks—that’s you, my brothers and sisters—to deal with those who spend more time listening to the voices inside their head than they do voices of reason.
March 27, 2008
Patrol
Mentally Ill and Dangerous
Mental illness is defined as a psychiatric disorder characterized by abnormal functioning of the centers of the brain responsible for thought, perception, mood and behavior. And according to mental health codes, it is the substantial disorder of thought or mood that significantly impairs judgement, behavior, the capacity to recognize reality or the ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life.
October 31, 1996
Patrol
Handling the Mentally Ill: There Are No Shortcuts for Officers
One study has shown that 32 percent of the homeless, who populate our urban streets, are mentally ill and if you have homeless people in your community, you most certainly have those who are mentally ill among them.
February 29, 2000
Training
How to Speak to the Mentally Ill
Barking orders and giving demands to someone who is already agitated will only make things worse.
April 26, 2019
Patrol
N.J. Cop's Arrest of Mentally Ill Man
Passaic (N.J.) PD's Officer Joseph Rios was suspended in June of 2009, following his altercation with Ronnie Holloway, a 49-year-old schizophrenic he arrested at Main Avenue and Summer Street. The officer had ordered him to zip up his sweat shirt.
August 5, 2011
Point of Law
Point of Law: Mentally Ill Suspect Attacking with Vehicle
Louisiana sheriff’s deputies used deadly force when an apparently mentally ill man attacked a lieutenant with his car. The district court ruled for the officers and the plaintiffs appealed.
December 8, 2021
Patrol
Interfacing With the Mentally Ill
This 1960 documentary, "Booked for Safekeeping (Part I)" was made to train officers to help mentally ill and confused people. The film advocates that mentaly ill people be held in the least restrictive environment possible, particularly not in a jail cell unless absolutely essential. The film points out that there are often inadequate facilities and services to deal with such people, and that is why the job falls to the police.
December 3, 2009
Weapons
Report: Mentally Ill Can Buy Guns with Ease
The mentally ill, substance abusers, and other dangerous individuals have freely purchased firearms because nearly 90% of states fail to send all necessary information to a federal database used to run background checks for gun buyers, according to a new report.
November 14, 2011
Patrol
Mental Illness Suicide Attempt
You get a call of a suicidal adult male who has a history of mental illness. He has been depressed, got into an argument with his mother, and has armed himself with a sharp kitchen knife.
June 9, 2016
Patrol
Video: Officer Shooting Mentally Ill Man Caught on Camera
Footage from a neighbor's surveillance camera appears to show a Dallas PD officer shooting an unarmed, stationary mentally ill man. The officer had said the man advanced toward him while raising a knife.
October 17, 2013
Patrol
Officer Shooting Mentally Ill Man Caught on Camera
Footage from a neighbor's surveillance camera appears to show a Dallas PD officer shooting an unarmed, stationary mentally ill man. The officer had said the man advanced toward him while raising a knife. Read the full story here.
October 17, 2013
Patrol
Illinois Officer Lauded for Kindness to Mentally Disabled Woman
The Bloomingdale Police Department responded to a call where a 21-year-old mentally disabled woman had wandered away from her home. Officers found her walking along the roadway, adding that she was "visibly scared and upset and would not come with the police."
July 27, 2015
Patrol
TN Officer Stabbed Trying to Detain Mentally Ill Suspect
Roby reportedly stabbed one officer and he attempted to injure 10 other officers on the scene by throwing explosive devices.
January 31, 2018
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