Why do Aboriginal people need help?, page-46

Remember the role of police is not to kill people it is to affect an arrest and have the individual placed before the courts and a judge or jury decide the outcome. ......... damn right Kailash.... or indeed the mental health unit.

yes indeed I've been retired for over a decade now, so yeah, I have only news reports to go on. but I'm not out of touch with mental health as I still have old friends (younger but of long duration) in psych and they tell me that less psychotic patients are brought in by police these days. and this with a greatly increased population and worse drugs available than in my day.