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Scheduled to begin next month, the switch takes power away from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, an agency that greatly expanded under the de Blasio administration.
A patchwork of efforts across the city and county of L.A. struggle to meet the demand for psychiatric crisis response. “No matter how much you ask for the help, getting the help is not something that is guaranteed,” one mother told LAist.
13 Investigates introduced you to Charleen Hunter in this video. Her serious psychiatric illness led police to handcuff her, tase her and carry her headfirst from her second-story apartment. It is not easy to watch the bodycam video from Hunter’s encounter with Stillwater police last fall. She admits she is embarrassed. However, coming forward, she […]
By Nadia Kounang, CNN
Tisha Bryson has been shackled, hospitalized and shoved to the ground by central Illinois law enforcement officers more times than she can count while experiencing a mental health crisis.