The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer crashed into a North Dakota sheriff’s vehicle during a police chase, pushing it into a deputy and killing him, according to authorities and the …
The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer crashed into a North Dakota sheriff’s vehicle during a police chase, pushing it into a deputy and killing him, according to authorities and the …
So they called the cops on a mentally ill man suffering from paranoia and having some sort of feeling around his dead brother?
Seems like a recipe for disaster. This is 100% why cops shouldn’t be the go-to solution for non-compliance.
We need a dedicated mental health emergency response department. Police are not the right people to deal with mental crises.
A situation like this, though, where he was behind the wheel of a vehicle is really tough. He was a danger to himself and others. How do you handle that?
You make it sound like they had an alternative.
Their options were basically to either call the police or just do nothing and hope it all worked out fine. The former puts lives at risk because of how negligent the police are, but the latter is also negligent and potentially puts lives at risk.
There wasn’t some other party they could call to try and intervene. It was cops or bust.
Cops shouldn’t be the only solution, but the reality is that they are. The choice to call them was the more responsible one even if the police themselves make little effort to behave responsibly.