UAA Justice Center2018-01-162018-01-162017-10-18UAA Justice Center. (2017). "When Mental Illness Becomes a Police Matter." Alaska Justice Forum 34(2) (Fall 2017, online edition).0893-8903http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8085This article also appeared on p. 8 of the Fall 2017 print edition.Mental illness is not a police matter in and of itself and most people with mental illness (MI) are not involved in the criminal justice system. When police do interact with an individual with MI, care needs to be taken not to label the person as the problem but to focus on behavior that causes harm to self and others.Interactions usually not violent / Hard to quantify / Referencesen-USlaw enforcementmental healthpoliceArticle