[DemolitionRed]

This isn’t about condemning a police force. I’m sure many of us would agree that most police officers are decent people who put their lives on the line every single working day. This is the fault of the system. A system that is turning policing into a dangerous game of us against them. It was the system that criminalized homelessness, and being drunk without being disorderly; it was the system that decided mental illness should be handled by armed cops trained to enforce compliance. American cops are rewarded on how many arrests they make each day. That’s because each convicted man is money in the hands of those who have shares in the private prison systems. They are no longer trained in community policing and they certainly aren’t trained in recognizing and dealing with mental illness. Its all a numbers game where cops are expected to compete with one another.