handstandsonthecatastrophecurve:

euryale-dreams:

aka14kgold:

fromacomrade:

NPR is talking about how “cops should be able to take people in if they show mental health problems.”

People are actively suggesting we criminalize mental illness. This is where your bullshit narrative of painting this as a mental health problem gets us.

Cops kill people with mental illness. So yay, thanks for that target on our backs.

This attitude ruins lives.

I have a tic disorder that causes me to move or vocalize in a way that makes me look Very Crazy and when my disability gets bad I literally cannot be in public without an escort because Concerned People can and will behave violently towards me. I have been locked up because people were ~concerned~ before.

And yeah… getting assaulted or killed by a cop is a very real worry of mine.

So fuck this noise and fuck the people commenting on this thread talking about how we’re not talking about ~actually~ criminalizing madness because, buddy, I already live that life. The only difference between a locked ward and a prison is that a nurse gets paid more than a prison guard.

I’ve seen this come across my dash a bunch of times and refrained from commenting because I just didn’t know how to put my feelings into words. As usual, Euryale did a great job doing just that. For somewhat different reasons I’m in the same boat as hers. I’m fucking terrified of this happening, and worst of all, not without reason. Around here, “confused” people (a gross euphemism for acting in a way that makes the normies uneasy) get routinely arrested, assaulted, and sometimes even murdered by the police.

Also institutionalization is like a Thing and again the police plays a big role in dragging out people to be thrown into brain jail and the amount of violence they use when doing so is fucking appalling. But hey, who gives a fuck, it’s only the crazies and undesirables that this happens to and it’s not like we’re fucking humans or anything.