In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...
