52: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone
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The Nine One One Response to a Mental Health Crisis
Nine 88 i is an opportunity to recognize that minal health conditions needed to be treated as a matter of health care, not of criminal justice. Police officers are really ill prepared, in many cases, for managing individuals that are experiencing a mental health crisis. If you do have a mental illness and you do receive a police response, there's a higher of death, of being killed,. becaused this is just because of the way it works out.
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