Cruel and unusual!! School Refuses To Let Father Take His 10-Year-Old Autistic Son Home...

[TorchTheWitch]

23. in a court of law

People always tend to forget that part. And obviously, one can't be PROVEN guilty at time of arrest. That's putting the horse in the cart not just behind it.

Mental illness or no, sometimes the mentally ill or otherwise mentally challenged have to be taken in for the safety of others. It's not about cops needing to understand mental illness, it's about a cop's job being to make people including the offender safe even when it's someone mentally ill or challenged doing something their mind can't help but is nevertheless dangerous to others or otherwise breaks the law.

Police officers are not mental health professionals nor should they be. That job is for the mental health professionals. The police have an entirely different job... make people safe including the offender as quickly as possible.

Quite a number of mentally ill people have done dangerous things to others because of their mental illness like the guy that shot Gifford or the guy that shot up a university full of students or the guy that shot up his family or the woman that shot up a mall, etc. The police don't need to be diagnosing the offender or playing doctor with them, they need to do what their job actually is. Once the offender is in custody and people made safe then bring on a veritable parade of mental health professionals to try to sort them out.