Should the police be given the right authority to administer sedation medicine for those who are resisting arrest?

No, not unless they have a medical degree.

Absolutely not.

@snowberry What if a psyche nurse or medical officer tagged along and partnered with the police officer? For mental wellness checks?

No.

A psyche nurse doesn’t have the necessary training ether.

Oh, fun. One for every squad car! lol

@RedDeerGuy1: “What if a psych nurse tagged along and partnered with the police officer?”

Or what if people listened to what people have been demanding for years and made serious efforts to defund the police?

I don’t mean to be dismissive, but it seems that random ideas of giving the police more power in response to calls to abolish or minimize police is absurd.

We don’t need to devise new ways to model a police state. We need to listen to people who have been re-imagining how we approach societal health and the role of “police”, whatever that may mean in the future.

@hmmmmmm Maybe we should break up the police force into specialists in violent and non-violent community calls? One for bank robbers and another for someone off their pills?

Sure, then they book you for being under the influence of drugs.

I’m not often in complete 100% agreement wth @hmmmmmm but here I am. :-)

No. It’s too unpredictable.

@RedDeerGuy1 Police are police, they may need better training when working with people with mental conditions.

@Tropical_Willie Maybe the public should be trained to call an ambulance and not 911 police for mental health complaints? In Canada we have Mental Health first aid . Maybe that would help?

Not the way it works, 911 is the Ambulance, Fire and Police.

@Tropical_Willie Ok. Then I would suggest 911 Ambulance to be called first, for mental health concerns. Or of at the discretion of the 911 dispatcher.

@RedDeerGuy1 We have specific codes for mental health situations here in my area.
They specifically send officers trained in mental health situations.

@KNOWITALL Ok great. Is it effective in reducing fatalities?

@RedDeerGuy1 Depends on how you look at the numbers but I’d say yes.

Is one a year too many for a fatal interaction with a mentally ill person and the police that is not suicide or an OD Pre-Covid? By this, I mean someone off meds and violent or naked in public, etc…

We have some really great mental health resources here in our area, free, so I think we may be a little luckier than others. At least Pre-Covid. The biggest city close to me also has a mental health liason at PD, the first-ever.

Absolutely not.
Without a medical history of a person, no sedatives, should be administered.
Even a stun gun, can kill, if the person stunned, has underlying conditions.
This is why a choke hold, is a “no no.” The person could have partially blocked arteries, or underlying pulmonary, or cardiovascular issues, etc.