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Mental Health Cop
Personal blog · mentalhealthcop.wordpress.compoliticshealth
Mental Health Cop is a personal blog at mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com about politics and health. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its writing on mental health care and policing by a UK police inspector. One commenter calls the author a writer of many intelligent things on that intersection.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to my award-winning BLOG on policing, mental health and criminal justice — I am a criminology lecturer and researcher: My PhD is a critical realist study on how the RCRP programme remediates lessons learned after mental health police contact deaths by examining HM Coroners' Preventing Future
What Hacker News says?
This guy Michael Brown (absolutely no relation to Ferguson) an Inspector in the UK west midlands police force has been steadily writing many intelligent things over the years about the intersection of mental health care and policing. https://twitter.com/MentalHealthCop https://mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/about/how-to-use-the-b...
Comment linking /about/how-to-use-the-blog/
on “In Memoriam: Ian Murdock”Submitted A Story About De-Escalation (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Public place" is indeed a vague term. In some statutes, it has a definition that includes publically accessible private property such as common areas of businesses, hospitals, etc. Does it include places where access depends on payment of a fee? How high above the ground do public places extend (thinking of photography drones)? See also https://mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/place-to-wh... which shows the…
Comment linking /2013/09/20/place-to-which-the-public-has-access/
on “Web Scraping in 2016”