[spoondan]

But it isn’t a good point absent the bad assumption that the mentally ill are more dangerous. It only takes one bicyclist that’s fallen off his bike to kill you. So what?

[dageshi]

It isn't just the aspect of someone being mentally ill, it's someone being mentally ill and that their behaviour caused the police to be contacted.

[bluntfang]

like that one time a white woman called the cops on a black man in central park?

I don't think doing an action to have the policed called on you is the best approach, considering it can be weaponized by dishonest actors.

[joshuamorton]

This is a symptom of people being to primed to believe that mentally ill people are dangerous, not a legitimate cause for concern.

Purple call the police on someone yelling. A mentally ill person yelling isn't a danger. They might be in crisis or pain, or they might be unable to effectively communicate.

A gun didn't help in any of those, the vast, vast majority of cases.