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The Memphis Police Department joined in partnership with the Memphis Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), mental health providers, and two universities (University of Memphis and University of Tennessee) in organizing, training, and implementing a specialized unit. This new alliance was established to develop a more ...
Miles Hall's death is one of many incidents in which individuals experiencing mental health crises have been killed by police. According to a report by the Treatment Advocacy Center, individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than individuals without mental illness. [20]
As a member of Congress, she had examined more than 100 lethal police encounters throughout the country and found that at least 40% involved a mental health crisis, she said.
An NPR story in 2020 estimated that calls that could be classified as mental health-related or substance abuse account for as much as 20 percent of emergency calls to police nationwide.
In 2018, the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act was signed into federal law, a direct response to the unique stressors that police officers face, and a recognition that law enforcement ...
Prude had been suffering from a mental health episode after ingesting PCP and left his brother's house in a disturbed and naked state. His brother called the police, which then led to the encounter with law enforcement in the street outside of his brother's house. [1] The officers put a spit hood over his head after he began spitting. They ...
The encounter moves into the family’s living room and other officers join in telling Lynch to drop the weapons. ... Lynch’s family was critical of police, saying he needed mental health ...
Angelo Quinto (March 10, 1990 – December 26, 2020) [1] was a 30-year-old Filipino-American Navy veteran who died on December 26, 2020, from complications after being knelt on the neck by a police officer three days earlier. Prior to the encounter, police were responding to a call that Quinto was suffering from a mental health crisis. [2]