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“Mental health and mental illness is not a crime,” Cook said. “If we start working to provide people with mental illness with solutions and we don’t treat [them] as criminals then I think we are already starting in the right direction.” Tittle said mental health issues do not excuse criminal behavior. However, he said officers can detain individuals having a mental health crisis rather than arrest them if they are an immediate danger to themselves or others. “That is more often the appropriate detainment, and they do not come to jail, they go to [Methodist Richardson Medical Center] and go to their psychiatric center,” he said. “We just want to be diligent in our efforts to call [a mental health crisis] what it truly is and take the appropriate actions that should truly be taken.”

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