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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

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How Do You Respond to Situations of Mentally Disabled People?

The government used to take care of, especially mentally ill people very differently than they do now. The institutionalization has been a real success in the realm of intellectual developmental disabilities. So we can divest and reallicate those funds to either support existing agencies or to create agencies and responses for certain things that we don't absolutely need law enforcement present for.

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