“My standard rhetorical question is — would it be OK if somebody in a diabetic coma or some sort of medical crisis always had to be transported across the state? And would we be OK with … laying them down in the back of a sheriff’s vehicle while we transport them?”
-Mental Health Association Oklahoma Executive Director Mike Brose, speaking how Oklahomans suffering a mental health crisis often end up handcuffed in the back of a police car without having ever committed a crime (Source).