In a searing, eloquent essay on living with schizophrenia, Deborah Danner agonized over the deaths of mentally ill people like her at the hands of police. NYPD admits 'we failed' in police shooting of mentally ill Bronx woman Read moreWith the mayor saying the sergeant failed to follow his training in handling mentally ill people, Danner’s death seems to echo a scenario she dreaded in a 2012 essay. Danner called for “teaching law enforcement how to deal with the mentally ill in crisis”, training the city has emphasized in the past two years. Her essay alludes to the case of Eleanor Bumpurs, a Bronx woman killed in 1984 after waving a knife at officers during an eviction. “I smile rarely,” Danner wrote, “but I am surviving.”In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2016 21:57 UTC