NY Funds Police Training on Mentally Ill
New York’s new budget allots $400,000 for a pilot program to train police officers in dealing with the mentally ill, The Associated Press reported. Mental health advocates proposed the training to help officers assess and de-escalate confrontations when called to incidents involving psychologically troubled people. The so-called Crisis Intervention Team model, which teams cops with mental health professionals, is already used in some form by 2,700 jurisdictions nationwide.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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