Mental Health Outreach
Training, tactics and tools give officers options for resolving potential conflict without contact
A premature rush to routinely dispatch psychologists and social workers to the scene of potentially lethal police-citizen encounters may be a matter of misapplied good intentions
Under a new mandate, California mental health agencies stand to lose funding if they collaborate with law enforcement. Here’s why that is a mistake
Lawmakers may set up a community task force as they consider restricting public access to body cam videos of police interactions with people with mental illnesses
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies will be paired with behavioral health specialist on calls where mental health is believed to be a concern
The document said Matthew Riehl was hospitalized at the veterans medical center in 2014 after a psychotic episode and escaped but was brought back
The state’s success is based on law enforcement partnerships that have led to successful collaborations in care
Police and county officials have begun looking for new solutions
Society cannot expect police officers to handle mental health calls with the same expertise as mental health care professionals
William Morva was executed after an unsuccessful campaign to spare his life over concerns about his mental health
The now-mandatory course will be part of the additional training officers need every three years to be recertified
It was the fourth attempt in 10 days that deputies tried to take Joshua Anthony Barre in for a court-ordered mental evaluation
Sgt. Hugh Barry convinced Deborah Danner, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, to drop a pair of scissors, but the woman ran to the bedroom and picked up a bat
The grant will allow up to five police departments in the area to use the mental health services through November
The law gives local judges the authority to order severely mentally ill individuals to undergo outpatient treatment
Officer John Bellanti spoke with and calmed down suspect Terrence Dixon last month after police said Dixon tried to snap the neck of a leasing agent at his apartment complex
The new policies are aimed at steering people with mental health issues toward treatment instead of jail
The Senate voted to block a regulation that would prevent an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm
A state civil rights and wrongful-death lawsuit has been filed against Fontana and its police department
Officers with specialized training will be able to refer anyone having a mental health or substance abuse crisis to a hospital or treatment facility rather than arrest them
The NYPD has trained more than 5,000 officers on how to handle mental health crisis calls but doesn’t have a way to dispatch those officers when calls come in
LE officials and mental health experts agree the nation’s crumbling mental health system has exacerbated the problem, often making officers de facto crisis counselors
The primary goal is to help individuals with mental illness and co-occurring substance issues by giving them the opportunity to receive mental health treatment rather than going to jail
The video shows the suspect opening the door and yelling “time to die”
Legislators continue to focus on guns, but we also cannot allow the dangerously mentally ill to have access to the myriad other killing tools readily at their disposal in the kitchen drawer, tool shed, or sporting goods store
Unlike Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, or James Holmes at a movie theater in Colorado, or Jared Loughner outside an Arizona shopping center, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did not have discernable psychiatric diagnoses
Part two of an active killers series explores behavioral cues of the dangerously mentally ill
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