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The goal should be to maximize safety for all and prevention of additional trauma for the person in crisis, who is often experiencing heightened anxiety due to the uncharted path mentioned above, minimizing uncertainty, unknowns and difficult challenges, can often be achieved through a team effort of optimizing communication between all involved, deescalating and/or maintain a calm process to achieve the goal of improving the current model for a safe and satisfactory outcome for all

Accurate and complete knowledge is vital and mutual communication between all parties involved in the process of a 911 call and the journey that follows is paramount.

Mentally ill persons should never be incarcerated in prisons; they require professionally administered, medical assessment and appropriate treatment.

Incarceration too often leads to extreme vulnerability while being caged with non-mentally ill persons, and other unstable mentally ill persons, who are violent and intolerant of mentally ill persons, leading to the mentally ill person being vulnerable, thus subjected to repeated beatings, rape, ill treatment, additional trauma, no access to medical care or appropriate medications, and are too often left to resort suicide or being beaten to death while trapped inside a cell, unable to escape or seek help.

This is a very real atrocity, that fills the over-crowded jails and keeps mentally ill persons caged for years, waiting for court processes to deal with their matters, and subsequent years waiting for a bed to become available in mental health hospitals for assessment and treatment, years after being incarcerated; especially for those deemed NCR (NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE) for the incident that lead them to be incarcerated in the first place. We need more hospitals and hospital beds, not more jails, detention centers and remand centers.

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