SHOOTING VICTIM WROTE ABOUT POLICE KILLINGS

NEW YORK A mentally ill New York woman shot and killed by police this week wrote an essay in 2012 expressing concerns about such shootings.

Deborah Danner called for “teaching law enforcement how to deal with the mentally ill in crisis” in her essay on living with schizophrenia. “We are all aware of the all too frequent news stories about the mentally ill who come up against law enforcement instead of mental health professionals and end up dead,” she wrote.

Danner, pictured, called for “teaching law enforcement how to deal with the mentally ill in crisis,” training the city has emphasized in the last two years.

Police say a sergeant fatally shot the 66-year-old Danner on Tuesday in her Bronx apartment after she went at him with a baseball bat.

Police officials have been looking into why the sergeant didn’t use a stun gun or call for specially trained emergency service officers.

Although investigators haven’t reached conclusions, Mayor Bill de Blasio branded the shooting “unacceptable” and said the situation didn’t appear to merit the use of deadly force, while sergeants’ union president Ed Mullins described the shooting as self-defence.