{"id":9834,"date":"2015-06-30T21:33:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:33:41","slug":"police-shootings-of-the-mentally-ill-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/06\/police-shootings-of-the-mentally-ill-the-washington-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Shootings of the Mentally Ill: The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

from their series on killings by police:<\/p>\n

\u2026\u201cI want to shoot the cops,\u201d Page slurred to the dispatcher, prodding his stepdaughter to confirm that, yes, he had a gun. \u201cI want them to shoot me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minutes later, Page\u2019s death wish was granted. Two Clay County sheriff\u2019s deputies arrived to find that he had taken a neighbor hostage. They opened fire, striking him five times in the torso and once in the head. Page\u2019s gun later turned out to be a starter pistol, loaded only with blanks. His threats of violence turned out to be equally empty, the product of emotional instability and agonizing despair.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, police have shot and killed 123 people this year who, like Page, were in the throes of mental or emotional crisis, according to a Washington Post analysis. The dead account for a quarter of the 461 people shot to death by police in the first six months of 2015.<\/p>\n

The vast majority were armed, but in most cases, the police officers who shot them were not responding to reports of a crime. More often, the police officers were called by relatives, neighbors or other bystanders worried that a mentally fragile person was behaving erratically, reports show. More than 50 people were explicitly suicidal.<\/p>\n

More than half the killings involved police agencies that have not provided their officers with state-of-the-art training to deal with the mentally ill. And in many cases, officers responded with tactics that quickly made a volatile situation even more dangerous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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from their series on killings by police: \u2026\u201cI want to shoot the cops,\u201d Page slurred to the dispatcher, prodding his stepdaughter to confirm that, yes, he had a gun. \u201cI want them to shoot me.\u201d Minutes later, Page\u2019s death wish was granted. 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