Click Here to Read: For Police, a Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness: In response to high-profile shootings of people with mental illness, police departments around the country are turning to crisis intervention training By Erica Goode in The New York Times on April 25, 2016.
Officers from Portland’s Behavioral Health Unit with an individual they interact with on a regular basis who was later taken to the hospital. Credit. Amanda Lucier for The New York Times