Marcus David Peters had just left high school biology class of his work and arrived at his second job at a hotel where she worked as a part-time security guard, when he apparently experienced an episode of psychiatric. He left the hotel naked, climbed into the car, then the side turns off a road in Richmond, Virginia. A police officer, Michael Nyantakyi, who had seen the car accident, Peters seemed to climb, and they tried to subdue him with his Taser. As Peters advanced Nyantakyi fired two shots in the belly of unarmed, naked 24 years to kill him. Peters had no criminal record, his family, said with no history of mental illness or drug use has had, and his death, such as the killing of many police around the country, his friends and family he left in fear. “People ask me all the time, ‘What do you think caused him to have a mental break’ and I say, ‘We’ll never know, because he was killed?'” Says Sister Peters’, the Blanding princess. “It ‘s been easier to take the threat that was her dark skin, rather than trying to help him.” Richmond top prosecutor, that the shooting was justified May 2018 closed below. There are no reliable national data, how many people with monitoring disability or an episode of mental illness experience, is shot by the police every year, but studies show that the numbers are significant, probably between a third and half of all murders of police, and the renewed national debate over racial injustice caused by the killing of George Floyd for a cop in Minneapolis in May hand these deaths should have a leading role. Proponents of both races of justice and the rights of disabled people say blacks Americans are particularly at risk. Due to a series of social, economic and environmental factors that blacks are more likely to have as a white chronic diseases men are more likely to get the fight as an access to mental health care and less likely to have a formal diagnosis for a wide range of disabilities. By virtue of how others react to their skin, but almost just as likely that they are also, as white men have killed three times by the police. The combination of disability and the skin color is a double bond, says Talila A. Lewis, a supporter of the community and volunteer director of aid for the rights of Deaf Communities (IS) Advance education. The government of the United States, says Lewis, “The ideas on disability, crime and addiction built, intertwined with ideas built around classify race and criminalizing people.” Used the threat for people with mental illness and other disabilities, and the police are born Compliance culture ‘, he says Girma has a different lawyer and activist. “He who fails to comply immediately, the police moved to violence,” he says. The approach does not work when the police interact with someone who does not react in the way they expect. This is both white and deaf-blind Girma said that the danger is hardly abstract for them. “Some would yell for me to do something and not feel it. And then they will assume that I am a threat,” he says. To solve the problem advocated promoting a series of remedies against many close ties with the emerging national movement for public safety to reconsider. They want the cops total interactions with people with disabilities have to reduce, by redirecting funds to other support services and law enforcement agencies to rethink systems and protocols to better protect people. The requirements confer specificity and substance to the protest calls, “the police defund” when armed first responders to a situation that does not meet the required attention to the tragedies that the application designs follow or coercion, but care. Some departments seek. In recent years, police departments across the country forces have offered crisis intervention training that ensures designed official help and calmly interact with people with disabilities and defusing confrontations with mentally ill. But the quality of these training programs is all over the board, and the priority remains elsewhere. A report in 2016 by the Police Executive Research Forum found that police academies nationwide spend an average of 58 hours of training firearms and only 8 hours of de-escalation and crisis intervention. In 2015, the Arch, one of the largest organizations for the rights of disabled people in the country, launched its program for law enforcement officers, lawyers teach, victim service providers and other criminal justice professionals how to identify, interact and accommodate people with disabilities. “We talk about that a community really understood and what this look strong,” says Leigh Ann Davis, who heads the National Center Arco criminal justice and disability. The program consists now 2,000 people in 14 states. But the training programs, regardless of quality, is not enough, say activists. While protests continue nationwide and defund requirements or suppress the gain Police steam, prompting some advocates for radical models, try to avoid to bring people with disabilities or those experiencing mental health crises in touch with the police. In Eugene, Ore., For example, runs the White Bird Clinic, which is known as Cahoots (crisis support on the streets to help out), a program that redirects 911 health and non-mental emergency, drug use or homeless to a team of doctors and nurses crisis. These teams meet instead on such calls, not next police. The Cahoots program, launched in the late 80’s in place receives around 24,000 calls a year; The 17% of the Eugene Police call is diverted to Cahoots, a blessing for the police, they can use one of the best resources to fight crime. police unions have criticized the fact that it would respond to doctors and nurses for crisis calls without dangerous cahoots armed officers and similar programs. But Tim Black, who cahoots operations coordinator, says that this is not usually the case. His teams are working closely with the Eugene Police, and last year, only 150 of the 24,000 calls Cahoots repeatedly requested police protection. “There is a very constructive relationship we have with the police, because they see you as an expert,” says Black. “They trust us to engage in all kinds of situations that are not equipped to handle. But trust us to provide them too with feedback and supervision, when we see things that are not good, because they know that they come from the place of “understanding Olympia, Washington ..; Denver; and Oakland, Calif., develops programs for Cahoots modeled, and Black says other cities also begin to ask for advice. In New York City, a coalition of civil rights and social service organizations, a pilot program for two districts proposed would react call the paramedics and crisis counselors for mental health, rather than the police. The Coalition will devote $16.5 million for the riders over five years. (New York nearly $11 billion spent each year on police-related costs.) “One of the police will not answer the kind of response you want when people in a mental health crisis,” says Carla Rabinowitz, administrator of advocacy for non-profit community mental health access and project manager of the coalition. He noted that 17 experience in New York have been killed at least mental health crisis or in the past five years by the police violated. “E ‘for a tie and a much better EMT able to talk to the person to find out what the person’s life, providing the resources.” Racial equality and disability rights activist calling for change beyond law enforcement. The police violence, after all, is only part of the reason why American blacks have poor overall health outcomes and shorter life expectancy than white Americans. Because of years of systemic racism, blacks Americans are more likely to have lower income than white Americans, and to live in less safe neighborhoods with fewer grocery stores, fewer parks, poor air quality and less desirable schools. These factors contribute not only to increased cases of physical ailments, such as asthma and diabetes, but also in itself intertwined with worse mental health outcomes together. Blacks Americans are more likely to have schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. These challenges are compounded by many American blacks do not have access to medical and psychiatric care impartial. Blacks Americans are less likely to be identified as their white counterparts with autism and learning difficulties. He also speaks of disability and mental health in the black community require that the language can be taken separately from the general medical culture. “It is often understood disability with a white main targets and wealth,” says Lewis, the lawyer with Heard that helps people with disabilities to violence and detention across the country. Lewis explained that government officials and even traditional leader of disability rights often rely on formal definitions of disability that lead them to neglect the experiences of people with disabilities blacks. grow many American blacks experienced police violence they see in their communities witnesses and video of deaths for granted. But because of the way the medical and training systems we created mistrust between communities of color, advocates say the stigma and lack of awareness about disability in the black community can be, even if push back against violence, the impact of these vulnerable populations, Teighlor McGee, a 22-year-old, the staff in Minneapolis to help protect the protesters and sending medical devices was collected, says that the racial justice groups often do not think about people with disabilities when hold demonstrations or lawyers for the change. “Many people see people with disabilities as people do not,” he says. “People can not handicap police brutality and violence against because they can not go places to think about disability.” McGee has noted the lack of space to connect with others who shared his experience of black woman autistic, so that the black filling disability in line Collective the gap started. When people with disabilities or mental disorders are not the focus of the conversation, the activists say that makes it harder to build understanding and make changes. them to understand the limits of the police, has experienced Adrienne Bryant in Tempe, Ariz., says that this year. In January, she called the police because her son 29-year-old Randy Evans, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past year, was experiencing a manic episode and need help him in a psychiatric hospital. But when the police showed up at his apartment with shields and guns, she and his younger son in a fall panic, shouting officers, and quickly escalated the situation. “I have said many times, please do not kill my son ‘,” said Bryant, close to tears. “One wrong move, and I could lose two children that night.” The police dispatcher had given a false name, the official response that turned out to belong to a criminal offenders who was wanted for violating parole. Dispatchers officials also said that the man who had answered knife. (In fact, Bryant and his younger son all knives were gathered in the house and hide them to keep away from Evans until the police arrived.) Because of these errors believed the officers reaction to an armed criminals were against, but rather play not only a psychic call, Tempe police chief Sylvia Moir said time response officials say the wrong name does not change their behavior. The department believes that speak depending on the situation. “We must first begin with, the police have the right to social actor may be introduced in this space and in this social problem?” Says Moir. Over 60% of the Tempe police officers trained in crisis response, Moir says, and the city has a crisis response team except that accidents are also accessible in the online help in situations such as mental health crisis , sexual violence and domestic violence. But she said she would not police officers carry deadly weapons in dangerous situations become concerned about sending a rapid response team. “I think it really reflects reflective muscle police of the government to be, and no one else in this room, this work to do in this type of very complex space and volatile,” says Moir. But Bryant says the damage was done. His youngest son remains traumatized by the incident; He avoided after leaving home for months. And she is still working for Randy guarantee is not provided in collaboration with the dispatcher with the bad. “We will never call the police,” he says. Meanwhile, in Richmond, Blanding, whose brother Peter was killed near his car, is with the flow, galvanic importance of race and criminal justice reforms to urge them after his death sought. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney recently released a plan “to re-imagine public security” in the city, including a civilian review board, and a version for an idea Alarm crisis family mental-health experts answers mentally to a mean or -Health the crisis behavior, as well as other political changes. Blanding says he is happy to see the progress, but a system as long as the devices of the city not celebrate that ensures “is not a death sentence for having a mental health crisis.” This seems to July 6, 2020 issue of time. Picture copyright by Ryan M. Kelly AFP / Getty Images
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