Finally. This is excellent. Offloading mental health issues from the police is critical to reforming our country.
For some of the doubters on this initiative, NPR had a good discussion:
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/16/1111868486/calling-988-in-the...
For some of the doubters on this initiative, NPR had a good discussion:
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/16/1111868486/calling-988-in-the...
That said, I recently had the opportunity to watch (at length) a team of officers deal with someone experiencing a severe crisis. I can hardly believe the level of professionalism and kindness they exhibited. I'm anon, so I'll admit it--I cried and cried after watching that.