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Chicago academics suggest Portland police survey those they’ve had contact with, particularly mental health consumers – Oregonian, October 13, 2015 The only way to accurately measure whether Portland police are improving their encounters with people who have mental illnesses is to survey the people themselves, says a team of Chicago-based academics hired by the city […]
Understanding how police officers think about mental/emotional disturbance calls (PDF) 2014 – 8 pages, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, James Swartz, Casey Bohrman, Liat S. Kriegel, Jeffrey Draine ABSTRACT Police officers frequently respond to calls involving persons with mental illnesses and in doing so, they are key gatekeepers of access to […]
Improving police response to persons with mental illness: A multi-level conceptualization of CIT (PDF) 10 pages, 2008 – International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Jeffrey Draine, Victor Ottati ABSTRACT The large numbers of people with mental illness in jails and prisons has fueled policy concern in all domains of […]
Portland, the DOJ and the slow moving gears of mental health services – Street Roots, May 7, 2015 In 2013, the city agreed to create a mental health center in its settlement with the Department of Justice over police use of force. Two years later, what that would look like is all still a matter […]
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