791 - Tradeoffs —The Fifth Branch: Transforming The Way Communities Respond to People in Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Since 2015, 1,939 individuals experiencing mental health crises have been killed during encounters with police in America, accounting for 20% of all police killings. The first episode of "The Fifth Branch"— a three-part special series by Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project— examines what it looks like when one community dramatically changes how it responds to people in crisis. Episodes 2 and 3 can be found on the Tradeoffs website.
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Dan Gorenstein is the founder and executive editor of the Tradeoffs podcast.
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| 1:07.1 | Since 2015, 1,939 people in mental health crises have been killed during encounters with police in America, |
| 1:15.5 | comprising 20% of police killings and igniting the creation of alternative crisis response programs in several cities. |
| 1:24.2 | These programs deploy EMTs and social workers instead of armed police to handle 911 calls related to mental health. |
| 1:32.7 | In the first episode of a three-part special series by Tradeoffs and the Marshall Project, Dan Gorenstein, host of the tradeoffs podcast, narrows in on the first step to creating change, convincing police officers |
| 1:46.2 | that it makes sense to send unarmed mental health workers to some 911 calls. |
| 1:52.0 | Let's listen. |
| 1:53.7 | The phone rings a little after six, a sunny August evening in 2022. |
| 1:59.3 | Police Chief Patrice Andrews picks up. |
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