Unarmed mental health experts to
join cops on District 911 calls
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/23/2021 11:33:09 AM
Police departments in the Washington area are turning to mental health experts to help handle certain emergencies as they grapple with the role of law enforcement in the post-George Floyd era. Unarmed teams of behavioral health experts in the District soon will be dispatched to certain 911 calls instead of police under a new pilot program. “The sooner we can identify what a person needs—whether that is an ambulance, a doctor’s appointment, or in this case, a visit from a behavioral health expert, the sooner we can help them,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a statement this week. Baltimore is taking a similar step
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Behold, the answer to the problem of how to necessarily skyrocket the cost and slow the response time of emergency calls (assuming they're not going to have psychiatrists riding around in squad cars). Psychologists associations probably push these programs behind the scenes; business must be down with general practitioners dispensing antidepressants like Pez and the mental hospitals shut down per leftist demands that crazy people should roam the streets.