One Alternative To Policing That Could Work

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Representative Leslie Herod knows what it's like to have a family member struggle with addiction and incarceration. But she also knows that this is more a failure of a greater system than a failure of a sibling, and that’s informed the policy and programs she’s spearheaded around mental health, substance misuse, and the criminal justice system. Nzinga and Representative Herod talk about how current systems of policing and treating substance misuse not only bypass treating mental health, but often make it worse. Luckily, Representative Herod has a program in Denver, Colorado that has actually worked.

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0:41.6	Hey, everybody. This is in recovery.
0:46.5	The news has been, shall we say a lot for a long time.
0:52.7	And when you see traumatic events happen over and over and over again to black and brown people at the hands of the police,
0:54.6	it's hard not to feel hopeless about our options for policing in this country. Do we abolish? Do we reform? It might be impossible
1:01.6	to even imagine a solution that exists, but it does. In Denver, Colorado. The STAR program
1:09.1	dispatches health care workers when responding to incidents
1:12.0	involving mental health, poverty, homelessness, or substance use. And it's spearheaded by this
1:18.6	woman, Representative Leslie Herod. She was elected to Colorado's 8th District as the first
1:24.9	black LGBTQ woman in the General Assembly in 2016 and was just
1:30.8	re-elected this last year. And she's our guest today on In Recovery.
1:51.8	Thank you. Representative Herod, so happy to have you on the show.
1:53.3	Thank you for joining us.
1:54.7	Thanks so much for having me.
2:18.5	Why don't we jump in, I'll tell you a little bit, like we've dedicated this season to to the show to really taking a look back over the past year and all of the trauma that all of us have survived and that we're trying to navigate our way out of into recovery in this upcoming year and really hearing the stories of a lot of different people and how our early lives contributed to how we navigated the last year and ideas for navigating the upcoming
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