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  • Police visit patients, offer rides to mental health treatment

    April 30, 2021 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    When people refuse mental health care while under court orders to get treatment, Tucson police send a mental health support team to take the people to crisis observation clinics or hospitals. The teams have the training and extra time that regular patrol officers often lack, so that such calls can result in a peaceful transport to get the person help, rather than to jail or ending in violence. Having the police involved at all poses policy questions that agencies wrestle with. But thousands of people per year are getting transported to places providing care instead of punishment.

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  • They answer the call when people are in crisis

    April 29, 2021 |

    City Newspaper (Rochester) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Following the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody, the city consulted with the operators of Eugene's CAHOOTS program to craft its own version of a team of unarmed responders to help resolve mental health or substance abuse crises without the use of violence. Rochester's Person In Crisis (PIC) team has averaged about 21 calls per day since January. All calls are made with the police in tandem, unlike CAHOOTS' model. Some violent incidents in Rochester have raised questions about PIC's ability to defuse conflict. But the operators say they have begun to make a positive difference.

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  • Dependency Court Programs Focus On Babies' Health

    April 29, 2021 |

    The Imprint |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Safe Babies program model trains judges to oversee foster-care cases with the goal of fixing the problems that led social workers to remove young children from their homes. Operating swiftly, so that babies do not lose precious weeks and months apart from their parents at a critical time, programs like Best For Babies in Pierce County, Washington, put teams of medical and mental health experts on a case. Nationwide, the program used in 30 states makes family reunification much more likely and rapid, with healthier parental attachments and child development.

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  • Vegas Stronger Starts by Asking Businesses to Call Them, Not Police

    April 29, 2021 |

    What's Next Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, Nevada

    When Las Vegas' restrictions on encampments pushed unhoused people into a shopping center outside the restricted zone, Vegas Stronger worked with business owners and the police to intervene without the need for arrests and jail. Although only two months old, the nonprofit has helped about 30 people through the network of services it has arranged. Services include housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and other connections to services people need to stay healthy and off the streets. Police welcome the interventions because they are relieved of handling non-criminal matters.

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  • How a US strategy is helping gang members in Malmö turn their lives around

    April 29, 2021 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Malmö

    When drug-gang violence reached intolerable levels in Malmö in 2017, Swedish crime prevention officials traveled to New York for tips. There they learned about a gang violence intervention strategy in which gang members are summoned to a meeting with law enforcement, community, and social-services representatives. They are told about the harm they are causing, are offered help in changing their lifestyle, and are warned that they will be prosecuted otherwise. In Malmö since then, hundreds heard that message, dozens accepted the help, and violence dropped significantly year after year.

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  • Philly Under Fire Episode 4: A Fresh 24

    April 29, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia's PowerCorpsPHL and a larger program it resembles, Chicago's CRED, spring from one reality: Young men prone to gun violence will readily leave street violence and the underground economy if offered the opportunity for a legitimate job. In Philly, the strategy worked even when the jobs barely pay minimum wage. When pay jumped $3 per hour, the rate at which program participants got arrested dropped from 8% to 3% immediately, versus the city average recidivism rate of about 50%. The programs also provide GED classes, trauma counseling, and other services meant to change lives permanently.

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  • Officers try to break stigma, offer help to drug users

    April 29, 2021 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson Police Department's Substance Use Resource Team reaches out on the streets to people with substance-use disorder, offering them treatment instead of arrest and jail. The team is an extension of the department's mental health support team and was started in response to the opioid epidemic. Officers talk to people they find on the streets, or follow up on 911 calls for overdoses. Not everyone accepts the offered help, and some end up arrested on warrants. But, at a time of rising overdose deaths, the officers and the peer support specialists who accompany them often can get people into treatment.

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  • What Dallas can learn from Oakland's experience in lowering violent crime

    April 25, 2021 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The "striking resemblance" between the gun violence problems of Oakland in 2012 and Dallas in 2020 argue in favor of Dallas' adoption of Oakland's Operation Ceasefire approach to violence reduction. By using a "focused deterrence" strategy of targeting people most at risk of committing or suffering violence, and offering services to change their lives' trajectory, Oakland saw six consecutive years of violence reductions, cutting gun violence rates in half. The program was disrupted by the pandemic, but its reliance on community resources and not just law enforcement is seen as a lasting effect.

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  • Part 1: Juvenile Court Diversion is Cheap and Effective, But Inconsistent Across NH

    April 24, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Juvenile court diversion programs provide an alternative to charging minors with a crime. The initiative focuses on holding juveniles accountable and focusing on “community repair,” with the aim of preventing them from committing a crime again.

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  • Prioritizing Incarcerated People for Vaccine Quickly Reduced COVID in Illinois Prisons

    April 24, 2021 |

    Truthout |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    After incarcerated people, their families, and advocates pressured the state of Illinois to prioritize offering the Covid vaccines to those in prison, the rate of Covid transmission among the population significantly declined. Although the rollout did not go entirely smoothly and guards have been reluctant to receive the shot, 69% of the incarcerated population in the state have been vaccinated.

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