Presented by: Melissa Reuland
Senior Research Consultant
Council of State Governments Justice Center
Mark Munetz, M.D.
Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
Louise Pyers
Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE)
Detective Ron Bruno
Salt Lake City Police Department
1. Exploring Statewide Implementation of CIT Melissa Reuland Senior Research Consultant Council of State Governments Justice Center Mark Munetz, M.D. Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy Louise Pyers Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE) Detective Ron Bruno Salt Lake City Police Department June 1, 2010
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Notas do Editor
Perhaps as a consequence of a lack of information and dependable alternatives for people in crisis, these situations continue to challenge police. The calls are complicated, time consuming, and can become volatile. As we know, on rare, but high-profile occasions, encounters can result in tragedy – an injury or death for the person with a mental illness, the officer, or others at the scene. In addition, the prevalence rate of severe mental disorder in jails in the US is quite high. The largest psychiatric inpatient facilities in the United States today are actually jails—Riker’s Island in New York City and the Los Angeles County Jail.
To address these problems, communities like yours formed partnerships to transform the police response so that it provides better crisis de-escalation and enhanced linkages to mental health treatment. PERF and the Council of State Governments Justice Center focus on “specialized law-enforcement-based approaches.” These approaches are “ specialized ” in that they enhance traditional police responses to this population. They are “ law enforcement-based ” because they require policing agencies to make a strong commitment to significant organizational changes. The two predominant police-based approaches are… READ SLIDE CSG and PERF produced the Essential Elements document to assist communities by identifying the elements these approaches share and offering different ways they can be achieved.
Research is now showing that these approaches are achieving some important goals. For example, … special tactical team call outs are often significantly reduced…This was an unanticipated outcome for these programs, but it is one that seems to suggest that the programs reduce the severity of encounters with police. arrest rates have declined… in Memphis and San Jose, officer injuries decreased after implementation of a CIT… … and, importantly, access to mental health service has increased