who wanted to defund police department saying we were going to bring in mental health officers as opposed to using police and when you look at the number of police officers who died this year imagine what would happen with mental health officers in the situation, 59 officers killed in the line of duty this year. you are right, that number would have been higher if every assault was reported. there s a lot cops take every day that is part of the job and as far as defunding the police i honestly wonder why we are talking about that. 15 months ago when they brought that up i struggled with that because i know what people want to feel safe especially in a committee where i police in the big city they want to see professional policing. we ve done things around the
resources they have in place for the mental health of their olympic athletes. they referred me to a mental health resource handbook and said due to a need they saw before these games even, they brought to tokyo for the first time ever at an olympics two mental health officers. that s on top of the psychiatrists and the doctors and the psychologists that they already have on staff, they re dedicated to helping athletes who suffer injury, losses, and the greatest gymnast of all time, simone biles. coy, thank you very much for that perspective. this is really extraordinary what has happened at the olympics. simone biles pulling out of the individual all around competition, citing her mental health. she talked to the cameras yesterday after dropping out of the team competition. i was just like shaking, could barely nap. i ve never felt like this going into a competition before. once i came out here, i was like, no. mental is not there. so i just need to let the girls
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