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The Justice Department warned 25 years ago that people can die when police tie handcuffed wrists to bound ankles. Some police are still doing it.

Limitations on admissions Toward the back of IU Methodist’s emergency room is a five-room area called secure holding. Someone experiencing a mental health crisis in that area is still considered an ER patient. Reis said people may stay in secure holding anywhere between a few hours or several days. “It gives us the flexibility to again have somebody in a space that's designed more for safety,” Reis said. There are three ways someone can legally be admitted to a psychiatric unit in Indiana: The patient may volunteer to enter treatment, agreeing that a stay in an inpatient psychiatric ...

There’s some division among law enforcement experts on whether two Windsor police officers handled a traffic stop correctly on Dec. 5, and what they could have done differently.

Accessing Emergency Mental Health Care In Indiana Often Challenging Unable to load the audio player. playpausemuteunmute Carter Barrett/Side Effects Late on April 15, Brandon Hole stepped out of his car at an Indianapolis FedEx facility. Armed with a rifle, he shot and killed four people outside before moving inside to kill four more. Then Hole, 19, turned the gun on himself. That night wasn’t Hole’s first interaction with police. In March 2020, his mother called the police because she was worried her son would try to commit “suicide by cop.” Hole was placed under immediate detention ...

When Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter allegedly mistook her service weapon for a stun gun and fatally shot an unarmed Black motorist Sunday, it was at least the 16th such “weapons confusion” incident in the United States since 2001. And the victim, Daunte Wright, was at least the fourth person to have died as a result, according to data compiled by the website FatalEncounters.org and University of Colorado professor Paul Taylor, who tracks such cases. These types of incidents are rare, experts say, although no government agency tracks the use of Taser-like devices nat...