People with mental illness have a far greater risk of dying in an encounter with police - 16 times more likely according to the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center.
A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study found that 23 percent of the 10,308 police shootings studied between 2015 and 2020 involved a person with a behavioral health problem.
Most police departments and sheriffs offices have begun to adopt de-escalation techniques in response to incidents involving people with mental health issues.
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