Job of the cops is to protect the current order and punish deviation never “help” anyone not of the ruling class.

Additionally, mental hospitals are overused.

When someone has a crisis, instead of receiving a meaningful intervention at the source of the crisis, the intervention will consist of locking them in a hospital and forcing them to take drugs, offering no other support. They may stay confined as long as an unaccountable judgment is maintained that they are not adequately stable, and they have essentially no rights in the interim. The whole system is farcical.

If it’s not an emergency (as in not actively attempting, and I assume this is the case by the language used in panel 1), your best bet to get someone involuntarily committed is by visiting the courthouse, filing a petition, and demonstrating with evidence they are a danger.

If it is an emergency, the yeah you have to call, and yeah they’ll probably send cops with the ambulance, and yeah the cops like doing that sometimes. But maybe you’ll get lucky, most of the time nothing bad happens and so it doesn’t become a national story and a point in your confirmation bias folder, so it’ll probably still be fine. Probably still better to seek option one though…