The London thug department has announced, all of a sudden, that it won't answer emergency calls about mental crises.

This implements, by surprise, half the goal of "Defund the Police": to stop sending armed thugs to deal with mental crises. However, it's only half of the goal of "Defund the Police".

The other half goal was to send other personnel to respond to those calls -- personnel trained in de-escalation and calming people down, rather than in violence. This surprise announcement makes no provision for anyone to do this job. It can't be the ambulance service: they are underfunded, and often arrive so late that the patient is ready for burial.

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