Blacks were 10% of LA’s population, but 44% of those diagnosed with “serious  mental  illness.” - 2014 report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discriminaton (CERD) Committee Review of the United States by Dignity and Power Now. Since 2015, 1,519 people with a history of mental illness have been killed by police in the US, according to the Washington Post—almost a quarter of all fatal police shootings. On average, 10% of law enforcement agencies’ total budgets and