#non violent

[ausetkmt]

1960's civil rights protestor attacked by k9

[getinvolvedyoulivehere]

City Sends Mental Health Experts to 911 Calls Instead of Cops and It's Worked 100% of the Time

A new program sends out a mental health expert on some 911 calls instead of police, and on hundreds of calls, they've had a 100% non-violent success rate.

This city has found a way to treat mental illness instead of turning it into a death sentence. Now if the rest of the country could follow suit...   As TFTP has previously reported, the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, an organization dedicated to eliminating the barriers faced by those with severe mental illnesses, released a jaw-dropping report in regard to police interactions with the mentally ill. In their report titled, Overlooked in the Undercounted: The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Law Enforcement Encounters, researchers discovered that people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an interaction with police than anyone else. According to the study, by all accounts – official and unofficial – a minimum of 1 in 4 fatal police encounters ends the life of an individual with severe mental illness.Where official government data regarding police shootings and mental illness have been analyzed – in one U.S. city and several other Western countries – the findings indicate that mental health disorders are a factor in as many as 1 in 2 fatal law enforcement encounters.This startling number highlights a critical problem with police and how they handle incidents with the mentally ill and it explains why so many people who simply need help, receive bullets instead.“If this were any other medical condition, people would be up in arms,” John Snook, the report’s co-author and executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center said. Read The Rest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/city-sends-mental-health-experts-to-911-calls-instead-of-cops-and-its-worked-100-of-the-time/

[manna-kaszka]

[kannibalcrows]

[whatshouldmartialartistscallme]

When someone thinks that martial arts promote violence

I'm like

[beautifult999]

And no I have never been in a fight my entire life other than the time that I was defending my actual life from my mom trying to take my life. I am non violent

[drmonkeysetroscans]

First do no harm.

[nautilusihussi]

My friend called me He. Didn't have to, we where with the boys and theyd just absolutely rinsed (to not British that means mocked) me about being GN, and he casually called me he. That means a lot man, I know we can't be doing this shit and be on these issues, but you called me He. That's it. Nothing more to say. When everyone was calling me she, you called me he. I'll never forget that