Changing the Police: To Police or Not To Police
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Yonkers, NY - Is Number 28 Really Going to Be?
charon has been arrested 27 times in the offus. She's a resident of yonkers, New York City and suffers from mental health issues. A pilo programme called b herd aims to divert police attention away from people like charon who need help most. The program uses vehicles that look like ambulances with an unarmed team of two e m ts, a social worker and a supervisor on board. In the first six months of the program, from june to november 20 21, new york city says nine one one operators diverted 22 % of mental health calls to b herd teams. That is in the few precincts where the program operates in harlem and the bronx
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