What to Do When Someone Is Having a Mental Health Crisis on the Street

&gt; And unfortunately that’s often how it is with the American police. They are trained in ending crisis situations forcefully, but there isn’t enough training in how to deescalate them so that no one gets hurt or killed.<p>It&#x27;s a sad commentary when the police can&#x27;t do police work without killing the people they are supposed to be protecting.<p>The other obvious choice I would think would be to call the paramedics! Is there some reason that a person having this kind of a crisis shouldn&#x27;t have an ambulance called?

This is great information for those of you in San Francisco. I&#x27;d love to see a similar list for other large cities.

Shame these aren&#x27;t the articles that go viral.

What we <i>actually</i> do is ignore it until we encounter someone complaining about it, and then harass them on social media for their insensitivity.