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Hey everybody

This is a repeat for a change

It's my conversation with Norm Ornstein and judge Steve Leifman of Miami date county

I'm putting it up as sort of a companion piece

To my YouTube video this week on crisis intervention training crisis

intervention training or CIT is

A training for police to recognize when they are confronting a situation that is

Energized by a mental health disorder sometimes

drug addiction, which is of course a mental health disorder and I was a champion of

Of this in the Senate I got federal funding for it what really brought this to mind again was the George Floyd

trial the Chauvin trial really that situation was so

just so

Badly handles it was so wrong they instead of deescalating that situation

Which if they had

had

Training maybe they got some training, but clearly

You also need some empathy too and in Miami day they give some

Crisis intervention training or at least that information

to every cop but what they do is they the ones the cops that are

Are empathetic naturally they become part of crisis intervention teams and police who confront a situation who may not know how to handle it

That's what what they do is they call crisis intervention teams and the crisis intervention teams know how to

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