Wallach on Law -- Saturday, Sep. 6, 2014 -- Fire & Gasoline
--When the Mentally Ill Meet Police. Featuring Ron Honberg of NAMI (the National Alliance
For Mental Illness). Officer-Involved Fatalities & Shootings on
the mentally ill are becoming commonplace. In August, Ezell Ford was
killed by two Los Angeles County Police Department officers, who
stopped him because he was acting strange, and when a struggle
ensued, killed him when they believed he was reaching for their
weapons. Three months earlier, in Detroit, Dontre Hamilton was
lawfully sleeping in a public park and had just been questioned by
two officers and deemed a non-threat. A third officer later woke him with
a baton, and when a struggle ensued, the officer shot Mr. Hamilton 14
times killing him. Neither victim was engaged in illegal
conduct, and both suffered from mental illness. None of these
officers received “Crisis Intervention Training”—which teaches law
enforcement officers how to identify and respond to those afflicted with
mental illness. Ron Honberg of NAMI joins us to talk
about what is needed and why.
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