Mental Health Outreach
The University of Florida Police Department is pairing clinicians with officers to better support the campus community
Many police agencies have seen the benefits of having social workers on staff to increase law enforcement effectiveness when dealing with subjects experiencing mental illness
Using a centralized incident management and response platform, law enforcement and mental health organizations can locate resources for individuals in crisis
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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