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Police reform and the stigma of mental health care in law enforcement are two ideas that are rarely spoken about in the same conversations. To date, I have not heard of any police leader that is instituting good mental health and wellness programs under the heading of police reform, but what if? What if every leader or every department in the nation created well-functioning, highly exceptional psychologically and medically-based wellness programs to enhance their version of police reform or initiate budgetary line items that spent as much on psychological care for their employees as they did on de-escalation or implicit bias training? I’m not insinuating that one type of training is more important than another; I’m merely stating that an excellent mental and psychological health program should be equal to these trainings in planning and budgetary considerations.