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Up to 50% of fatal encounters with law enforcement involve someone with a mental illness, a
2016 study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine estimated. And nearly 1 in 4 people fatally shot by police since 2015 had a mental illness, including a disproportionate number of people of color, according to
a Washington Post database of fatal shootings by on-duty officers.
There has been a growing consensus that
armed officers are not the responders best-suited for mental health emergency calls after
Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died in police custody in Rochester, New York, in March 2020 as he was suffering a mental health crisis.
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It’s working in Eugene, Olympia, Denver: More cities are sending civilian responders, not police, on mental health calls
Ryan W. Miller and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
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NEW YORK – Mildred Galarza and Hawa Bah wish it were someone other than armed police officers who first encountered their loved ones when they were having mental health crises.
Galarza s brother, Ariel, 49, died in 2016 after being Tasered three times by police when a neighbor in the Bronx called 911 to report a man with a knife who was pale, screaming and breathing heavily, a state report said.
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