Police Brutality, Mental Illness, and Race
Sep 3, 2020 ·
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Why should police respond to what is at its core a medical emergency? Is there a link between the disproportionate number of mentally ill Black people brutalized by police and...
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Why should police respond to what is at its core a medical emergency? Is there a link between the disproportionate number of mentally ill Black people brutalized by police and the over diagnosis of Schizophrenia in the African-American population? I’m very curious, and don’t have all the answers. Join me as I work through my thoughts and some of the data on police brutality, race, and mental illness in the USA.
Sources:
Sage: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536504218776970
Census: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
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Sources:
Sage: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536504218776970
Census: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
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