Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Teams Are Failing

WBUR

September 18, 2020

Nationwide protests over police accountability and racial justice have reenergized longstanding efforts to fundamentally change how police departments respond to someone in a mental health emergency. Many are calling for removing or dramatically reducing law enforcement’s role in responding to those crisis calls unless absolutely necessary.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/913229469/mental-health-and-police-violence-how-crisis-intervention-teams-are-failing