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"A 2006 national survey found, for example, that 60% of Americans thought that people with schizophrenia were likely to act violently toward someone else, while 32% thought that people with major depression were likely to do so."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illness-and-violence
On this website you can see just how much more likely mentally ill people are to become victims of crimes like theft, rape and murder.
https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/visions/trauma-and-victimization-vol3/victimization-of-people-with-mental-illness
Stereotypes and stigmatization actually worsen the conditions for mentally ill people. Everyone, but especially you as a police officer, must do better than that!
Please read the following article by the Canadian Mental Health Association, which states:
"The conditions which increase the risk of violence are the same whether a person has a mental illness or not."
https://cmhadurham.ca/finding-help/the-myth-of-violence-and-mental-illness/
In this article published by the BBC it states:
"Mentally ill people are four times more likely to be a victim of violence, according to an international study."
and
"Mental Health charities said, despite public fears, people with mental illness were much more likely to be a victim than a perpetrator."
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-17182626