If they see a gap, or a need, many law enforcement entities partner with organizations like NAMI. After a man experiencing a mental health ... officers how to appropriately communicate with people ...

who also believes that training to be on a Crisis Intervention Team can help officers themselves. CIT features law-enforcement officers, mental-health professionals, and people who live with ...

How can you prevent ... ways mentally ill individuals may be treated by law enforcement? Created with Sketch. U.S. police officers are regularly called in response to mental health crises.

A first in California, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office's new Care Alert program is a voluntary database with information ...

The Elgin Courier - serves Elgin, Texas, and wider Bastrop County. Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published weekly ...

A Maine Monitor analysis finds the number of weapons restriction orders statewide has jumped from an average of two to 32 per ...

We have huge challenges with people who have mental illness,’ says Miami-Dade Public Defender Carlos Martinez.

The shift in policy comes, Sheriff Jim Cooper said, after a 2024 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In it, the court found a Las Vegas police officer liable for the death of a man in mental ...

Unique pressures and emotional tolls come with the badge and leave far too many officers feeling alone or hopeless. Our legislature must do everything it can to protect those who protect our ...

Bailey said the city’s police officers have shouldered the brunt of these calls in years past, which keeps them from tending to law enforcement ... people with addiction or mental health ...

I can take whatever ... take a multi-dimensional approach to improving the way people with mental illness, and their families, are treated by law enforcement officers and the courts.