Thank you CBB for addressing this issue.  Another voiceless group are those with behavioral health issues...some who are homesless, some who are not.  Although there are psychologists on call to assist beat police the ER is used at police discretion or taken to the cellblock, where further evaluation does occur. Sometimes intellectual disabilities and psychiatric illness can have the appearance of "illicit drugs" when it's not.  Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, behaviors that draw police attention and resulting actions that traumatize can have long lasting affects.  Daily occurrences that don't hit the news.

A representative from the local Mental Heath Association, DD Council or National Association of the Mentally Ill are worthy of consideration in selecting the next police chief.