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Since 2015, nearly a quarter of all people killed by police officers in America have had a mental illness, according to National Public Radio.
“I have a firm belief that if you’re an adult, especially living in this country with a serious mental illness, you’ve probably had a negative interaction at some point in your life with a law enforcement officer,” said Joseph Smarro, chief executive officer of SolutionPoint+, LLC, at a University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs lecture on “human connection in public safety” in January.
Police departments have been working to combat this with Crisis Intervention Training. CIT has been around since the 1980s and is a “community partnership” between law enforcement, mental health and addiction professionals and people with mental illness or addiction disorders. ....

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