Some police officers are more easily willing to shoot a person with a severe mental illness. Some officers are corrupt and hypervigilant, and as a result think severely mentally ill people are worthless and better off dead. I don't believe these shootings of some of the mentally ill are just from police ignorance or accident. I'm mentally ill and 5150 and the officer I thought wanted to kill, like he thought I was some worthless, stupid fool. But, I was better after my hospital, completely normal and functioning again. I wasn't really mentally ill, but had just high blood pressure and anxiety. The officer thought I was severly mentally ill, and I believe all this officer could see was some severe mental illness going on with me, as if I was nothing but a nutcase. I was treated disrespectfully, lost my job, almost beat up by another patient in the nutward, and never felt quite myself again. I could have recovered in a regular hospital for two days, but since this officer had to insist I was a '5150', I almost lost my life from the brutal treatment. I"ve never been so close to my casket before in my life. I did contemplate suicide after the long psychiatric hospital. After getting out was when I was closest to a suicide because of being treated meanly and being shamed for my state of mind and treated like a wasted human in a nutward. I have two college degrees, a 3 page resume, 4 years of martial arts, been in ballet, dance, and have been an outstanding person, only to be treated like garbage. It's was obvious my problem was medical when the doctor found I was having PMS with high blood pressure, not a mental illness.