At least 1 in 4 fatal police encounters end the life of a person that has a severe mental illness in official and unofficial accounts. If this continues, the chance of being killed during a police encounter is 16 times higher for those who have untreated mental illness rather than those other civilians who are stopped by officers. On the other hand, people with mental illnesses killed law enforcement officers at a rate of 5.5 times more than the rest of the population back in 1998. In 1980, researchers began recording direct observations about how police officers handled mentally disordered people in a large northern city and how these interactions differed from relations with people who were not mentally disordered.
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However, the system that provided psychiatric care for people such as these has fallen greatly in the past 50 years. Almost half of the population with mental health issues does not take their medications this is known as nonadherence. Like most medications, side effects can include rapid heat rate, drowsiness, rashes, muscle spasms, dizziness, blurred vision, and other effects. However, depending on what kind of mental health issue the person has, not taking the medication prescribed to them could be dangerous. When a person is used to taking prescribed drugs all the time, their body gets use to the drug. Therefore, when they stop taking them, their body begins to go through withdrawal symptoms. Some mental health patients use medications to control psychotic episodes. Once they stop taking it, their episodes could get out of …show more content…
Each year, 2 million jail bookings involve a person with mental illness. Approximately 15% of men and 30% of women in local jails have a serious mental illness. Among the many disadvantaged people in jails, the largest group by far is people with a mental illness. Jails have been de¬scribed as the “treatment of last resort” for those who are mentally ill. Police might also see arrest as a simpler and more reliable way of removing such individual from the community. Subsequently, jails have become the long-term source for people with mental
Mental illness is defined …show more content…
However, the system that provided psychiatric care for people such as these has fallen greatly in the past 50 years. Almost half of the population with mental health issues does not take their medications this is known as nonadherence. Like most medications, side effects can include rapid heat rate, drowsiness, rashes, muscle spasms, dizziness, blurred vision, and other effects. However, depending on what kind of mental health issue the person has, not taking the medication prescribed to them could be dangerous. When a person is used to taking prescribed drugs all the time, their body gets use to the drug. Therefore, when they stop taking them, their body begins to go through withdrawal symptoms. Some mental health patients use medications to control psychotic episodes. Once they stop taking it, their episodes could get out of …show more content…
Each year, 2 million jail bookings involve a person with mental illness. Approximately 15% of men and 30% of women in local jails have a serious mental illness. Among the many disadvantaged people in jails, the largest group by far is people with a mental illness. Jails have been de¬scribed as the “treatment of last resort” for those who are mentally ill. Police might also see arrest as a simpler and more reliable way of removing such individual from the community. Subsequently, jails have become the long-term source for people with mental