My only choice shouldn't be the police.

Prior to EMS police were called to deal with all medical emergencies. It sounds ridiculous now. Why would you call a cop for a heart attack? Why would you call a cop for a seizure? Why should we call a cop for a mental health crisis? None of these make sense yet one is still currently the only option.

Police are not equipped for handling these mental health emergencies. They do not have the training or the equipment for it. Abdirahman Abdi is proof of this. Instead of a calm voice of reason coming to deescalate a situation, we send in mini GI Joe's with guns and tasers and zero compassion. It. Makes. No. Sense.

Let's stop holding onto this outdated idea of public safety. Let's put more funding into social workers and have someone to call when the police just won't do.

But also let's just completely abolish the police and rebuild public safety from the ground up cause we know they are making us any safer.