NYC sent non-police teams to respond to mental health calls for a month. Data shows that more people got help and fewer were hospitalized.
Remember that meme that shows two cops smirking while the text describes a (not-pictured) man having a mental breakdown? The idea is that a man having a difficult public mental health episode requires the attention of law enforcement officers (who are trained to use violence). Here’s what really happened when NYC tested out deploying trained…