The Briefing Room
State Chapters => NY/NJ => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on February 23, 2021, 08:20:34 pm
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NYC to Test No-Police Mental Health Crisis Response in Harlem
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-to-test-no-police-mental-health-crisis-response-in-harlem/2903212/
New York City police will stay out of many mental health crisis calls and social workers will respond instead in parts of northern Manhattan starting this spring, an official told lawmakers Monday.
The test program will begin in three Harlem and East Harlem police precincts that together accounted for a highest-in-the-city total of over 7,400 mental health-related 911 calls last year, said Susan Herman, who heads a wide-ranging city mental health initiative called ThriveNYC.
The details fleshed out a plan the city outlined broadly in November, aiming to keep psychiatric crises from escalating into confrontations and to provide people with more health-focused help.
"Test program" = "Culling the Herd" of NYC social workers.
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Heaven help the law-abiding residents of Harlem.
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What can possibly go wrong?