Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times argues in the following viewpoint that many people with mental illness are on the streets due to a lack of community-based health clinics where they could receive help. In consequence, the newspaper maintains, the mentally ill come into frequent contact with police, and many of these encounters turn deadly because police have not been properly trained to deal with people who have mental illness. The newspaper contends that to decrease police brutality, police departments must provide their officers with more effective training in how to defuse potentially dangerous situations with the mentally ill. The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper serving the greater Los Angeles area.

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1. According to the Los Angeles Times, how many mentally ill people were shot...