This is far from a PA issue, it's a "The US is INCREDIBLY happy to lock people in prison" issue.

We do not have social systems in place to help people with mental health issues. It's why whenever someone shoots up a school and politicians wring their hands about how its "A mental health issue" and then do NOTHING, it stings extra hard.

Defund the police was a bad slogan because it's catchy and makes sense if you understand it, but does not actually tell people what the idea actually is. Move funding from paramilitary police forces and excessive prison enforcement and put the funding into mental health services and better social safety nets doesn't have the ring to it, but god damn is it what this country needs to do.