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If one topic exists that law enforcement leaders can all agree on, policing today has evolved significantly during the last two decades. Not only have crime and technology changed, but so have social ...
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Justin Terney, a 22-year-old police officer who had served at the Tecumseh, Oklahoma, Police Department for merely six months, died on March 27, 2017, after a shootout with a man trying to flee...
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Not every critical incident involves a person with a weapon or mass casualties; often enough, a crisis involves only one person or a few people and centers around a person affected by mental health is...
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Police and sheriff personnel routinely face highly stressful work days with regular exposure to traumatic events. These direct and ongoing threats to their overall health trigger negative behavioral,...
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Over the last decade, there has been a growing issue for law enforcement—an increase in the number of contacts between individuals experiencing a mental health crisis and police officers with insuff...
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Homelessness. Mental illness. Substance use disorders. Law enforcement officers are routinely responding to calls in the community related to these three issues, and they are expected to have instant ...
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Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) is a model law enforcement mental health collaboration program that is believed to benefit patrol personnel in their encounters with individuals experiencing a psych...
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One need only look to recent media reports to see examples of negative encounters between law enforcement and individuals with mental illness who are experiencing homelessness. For example, a man expe...
