The police don't want to have to attend to calls with "emotionally disturbed persons" as they term them. I know a few officers in the NYPD and unfortunately the

The police don't want to have to attend to calls with "emotionally disturbed persons" as they term them. I know a few officers in the NYPD and unfortunately they aren't given many tools in order to deal with these people. They either have to dump them off at a hospital (who often also doesn't want them) or arrest them for whatever they did. It is really not what they want to be doing. In NY long ago there were very large institutions where they'd ship mentally ill people off to. This was not a good thing at all but the police did not have to deal with habitual people that stop taking their medication. Now there is not much they can do. So officers would love to have these resources.