That is definitely a factor. My main point is that unless the mental health providers are trained and equipped to actually, physically intervene in a crisis, then police will have to be called anyways. In our schools where there were not trained staff, police were called on a regular basis. This put police in an impossible situation because they were being asked to go hands on with children in order to control non-criminal behavior, which is not what force is for. The techniques we were trained in were also used with adults, but in group home/institutional settings. There is not a model for doing it on the street. You can't just switch out cops for counselors. A new kind of skillset and training will need to be created, that is half counselor/half cop. Otherwise, as soon as a client says "fuck you" to a counselor, their ability to intervene is done.