second story in today's paper of a mentally ill person and the police. nobody dies which is very good...
   however - these may have moved into 1st place, in front of domestic issues, as the least favorite calls to police. the person with the weapon is loaded with emotion, a delusion, mental illness and a gun.  Perhaps a very experienced and qualified person who is a counselor first, and a cop second, can do a better job of assessing the person and talking them down - a squad leader who has an equal say as to how it is handled.
    my sis gets wigged out and she's been  sick for several days. she perceives things in a non workable way and  she gets angry, frustrated and acts out pretty aggressively. we can calm her down using tricks and techniques we've learned. eventually she'll even out until the next bump in her road..... but it scares me because  i could see her do this aggressive/stupid  type of thing if she had no support and people to steer her away from it.