{"id":36407,"date":"2022-06-28T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36407"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:03:18","slug":"parceling-out-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/28\/parceling-out-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Parceling Out Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time readers will recall some posts concerning the CAHOOTS<\/strong><\/a> program of Eugene, OR, in which mental health specialists are sent to emergency calls specifying a mental health emergency, rather than police. Denver has implemented something similar<\/a> and is reporting success:<\/p>\n

Cities across the US, including New York, Washington DC and San Francisco, are experimenting with programmes to address mental health emergencies without police involvement. After the implementation of a pilot programme in Denver, Colorado, non-violent crime rates decreased by 34 per cent in participating police precincts.<\/p>\n

The Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) Program in Denver involves\u00a0mental health<\/a>\u00a0specialists and paramedics responding to non-violent emergencies instead of police. [NewScientist<\/strong> (18 June 2022, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that decline due to simply not reporting the incidents handled by STAR<\/strong> as crimes? And is that inappropriate? Maybe not.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

There was no impact on rates of\u00a0violent crime<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But also ..<\/p>\n

\u201c[People] might be concerned that not having police at lower-level crimes might lead to an escalation of something more violent, and that simply did not happen,\u201d says Dee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder how the combined budgets of police and mental health compare to the budget for the police prior to the initiation of the STAR<\/strong><\/a> program. Some hint is given:<\/p>\n

STAR was also more cost-effective than traditional police programmes. Dee says that in six months, STAR prevented an estimated 1376 criminal offences and cost $208,141. That implies a cost of $150 per offence prevented, says Dee. In comparison, minor criminal offences cost the criminal justice system an estimated $646 each due to related expenses like imprisonment and prosecution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-time readers will recall some posts concerning the CAHOOTS program of Eugene, OR, in which mental health specialists are sent to emergency calls specifying a mental health emergency, rather than police. Denver has implemented something similar and is reporting success: Cities across the US, including New York, Washington DC and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36408,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36407\/revisions\/36408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}