Crisis Intervention Training
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Eide joins City Journal associate editor Seth Barron to discuss the New York Police Department's "crisis intervention team" (CIT), which trains police officers to respond to situations involving people with serious mental illnesses.
In 2016, NYPD officers responded to more than 400 calls a day concerning "emotionally disturbed persons," some of whom are suffering major psychiatric episodes. Officers receiving CIT training are better prepared to de-escalate these encounters.
CIT training has become a priority for big-city police departments, but as Eide notes, even the best-trained force can't compensate for declining mental health services.
Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an expert on public administration and urban policy. His story "CIT and Its Limits" (coauthored with Carolyn Gorman) appears in the Summer 2017 issue of City Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, police officers in New York City responded to nearly 150,000 calls for emotionally |
| 0:06.6 | disturbed persons, or EDPs. That's a rate of more than 400 per day. Unfortunately, |
| 0:14.9 | interactions between officers and people with serious mental illnesses can escalate quickly and often have tragic consequences. |
| 0:24.0 | Police departments increasingly are training officers in crisis intervention to de-escalate such |
| 0:30.2 | situations. These programs, modeled on techniques used in hostage negotiation training, |
| 0:37.0 | teach officers about mental illness and its |
| 0:39.3 | varieties, symptoms, and prospects for treatment. Cops participate in role-playing scenarios, |
| 0:45.6 | with actors playing people suffering major psychiatric episodes. |
| 0:50.6 | Crisis intervention training has become a priority for big city police departments across the country. |
| 0:56.0 | In the summer issue of City Journal, Stephen Eyde and his co-author Carolyn Gorman |
| 1:02.0 | studied the NYPD's Crisis Intervention Team Training and reported back to us in a piece entitled CIT and its limits. |
| 1:12.1 | We'll talk to Stephen after this. |
| 1:22.5 | Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson. |
| 1:25.5 | Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring |
| 1:28.3 | urban policy and cultural commentary with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests. |
| 1:36.8 | Hello, welcome back to the City Journal podcast. I'm your host, Seth Barron, associate editor of |
| 1:42.3 | City Journal. Joining me today is Stephen Ide. |
| 1:46.8 | Steve is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an expert in public administration and |
| 1:52.2 | urban policy. His piece that will be discussing, CIT and its limits, appeared in the summer 2017 |
| 1:59.9 | issue of City Journal, co-authored with Carolyn Gorman. |
| 2:04.2 | Stephen, thanks for joining us. |
| 2:05.7 | Thanks a lot for having me, Seth. |
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