From Crisis to Handcuffs: Why Are Police Arresting Instead of Helping the Mentally Ill? - Manchester Ink Link

🚔 Round and Round She Goes: Mentally Ill Woman Arrested Twice in One Day… Then Set Free Again

Once again this week, the mentally ill homeless woman who’s become the unofficial face of Portsmouth’s broken mental health system

From crisis to handcuffs: Why are police arresting instead of helping the mentally ill? - Manchester Ink Link

Mental illness isn’t a crime, but too often, law enforcement treats it like one. I recently watched a body cam video of a woman being arrested – not for committing a violent offense, but because she took her prescribed medication the wrong way. Instead of swallowing it, she snorted it, which led to paranoia and psychotic behavior. As she became increasingly agitated, officers repeatedly questioned her instead of calling for mental health profess…

Canada will soon kill mentally ill friends, family, and neighbours for being mentally ill — unless Bill C-218 stops it. – TheWatchTowers.org

Drea Humphrey highlights a contentious expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, set to include mental illness as a sole condition for eligibility by March 17, 2027, unless Bill C-218, proposed by MP Tamara Jansen, bans it; this follows a 2024 legislative delay from an earlier 2021 plan, reflecting ongoing debates over vulnerable populations’ protection. Supporting evidence from the Canadian government’s MAID framework sh…