Whether Courts and Police improperly conflate subjective personal traits with true 'mental illness' in the context of street encounters resulting in unlawful Emergency Mental Health Detentions?

Unde r the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street encounters with citizens as “mental crises,” and wrongfully seize the public. Police also use the Community Caretaking Function as a font for insidious criminal investigations. There is no “universal” standard which delineates the circumstances and/or legal requirements for such seizures. (1) Whether Courts and Police improperly conflate subjective personal traits with true “mental illness” in the context of street encounter s resulting in unlawful Emergency Mental Health Detention s? (2) Whether the Community Caretaking Function has become a bountiful panacea for unlawful detentions, illegal seizures, and insidious searches by law enforcement?