Bipolar Lives Matter Inc

#bipolarlivesmatter® is a grassroots organization of people with mental illness, their families, friends, and supporters. all are welcome, and all ideas are welcome too. when the mentally ill are in crisis, the last people we need are law enforcement. law enforcement agencies enforce criminal laws. they are not for responding to mental health crises. police officers do not like responding to mental health crisis calls. officers joined law enforcement to get bad guys. rather than the confrontational approach of repealing qualified immunity, #bipolarlivesmatter® advocates that the best practice is to keep police and people in mental health crises apart. our goal is to reduce police brutality and other state-sponsored violence against those undergoing acute psychosis or other mental illness, including schizophrenia and related disease and bipolar disorder and related diseases. a los angeles times article found that 14 of 38 (more than a third) of people shot by lapd officers had docu