Exploring Police Response to Mental Health Calls in a Nonurban Area: A Case Study of Roanoke County, Virginia

Yang, Sue‐Ming; Gill, Charlotte; Kanewske, L. Caitlin; Thompson, Paige S.

doi:10.1080/15564886.2018.1512540

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“…In the adult sector, many argue that the use of police and police services as a mental health intervention is connected to developments in the mental health system and the expansion of mental health legislation (Cummins & Edmondson, 2016;Iacobucci, 2014;Kelly, 2005;Lamb et al, 2002;Wolff, 2005;Yang et al, 2018). Traced to the 1960s, the deinstitutionalization movement sought to shift the primary setting of mental health care and treatment from in-patient, psychiatric institutions and asylums to community settings.…”

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“…However, a strong critique of deinstitutionalization is that it occurred without the simultaneous development and implementation of appropriate community services and supports (Cummins & Edmondson, 2016;Kelly, 2005;Sloly, 2021;Wolff, 2005). Without adequate community-based mental health and social supports, individuals and families were pushed to rely on other systems, in particular, police services and the legal system (Cummins & Edmondson, 2016;Iacobucci, 2014;Kelly, 2005;Lamb et al, 2002;Sloly, 2021;Wolff, 2005;Yang et al, 2018).…”

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A call for de-policing crisis responses: Distressed children and youth caught between the mental health and police systems

Liegghio

Canas

Truong

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JCSWB

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In this paper, we present the outcomes of a narrative study of 13 interviews with six child and youth mental healthpractitioners and seven caregivers with a child between 12 and 24 years old involved with the mental health system and with a history of police involvement. The focus of the interviews was on the experiences of young people involved with the mental health system, and their caregivers, with police encounters. Two categories of themes emerged. Presented here are the outcomes that show the contradictions between the child and youth mental health and police systems as contributing factors to the stigmatization and criminalization of psychiatrically distressed children and youth. A call is made for a collaboration between the mental health and police systems rooted in a commitment for de-policing crisis responses in child and youth mental health.

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A call for de-policing crisis responses: Distressed children and youth caught between the mental health and police systems

Liegghio

Canas

Truong

et al. 2021

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“…Research shows that smaller, less population-dense communities tend to have fewer mental health resources relative to larger cities, if any at all. More specifically, smaller communities tend to have fewer psychiatric beds and psychiatric facilities, understaffed hospitals, and a lack of specialized mental health staff (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2019;Forchuck et al, 2010;Skubby et al, 2013;Yang et al, 2018). Beyond mental health, smaller communities also tend to have fewer resources for other services, such as social services, employment, and housing (Beimers & Gatlin, 2011;Belanger & Stone, 2008;Waegemakers Schiff et al, 2015), some of which are perceived as addressing foundational issues that certain PwPMI may need to resolve before being able to focus on their mental health (Koziarski et al, 2020) 2 .…”

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Examining the Spatial Concentration of Mental Health Calls for Police Service in a Small City

Koziarski

2020

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In recent years, police services have begun deploying more robust responses to calls for service involving persons with perceived mental illness (PwPMI), but at times do so in a limited capacity because of various challenges. Drawing from established evidencebased policing practices, a more efficient use of these responses may be to proactively deploy them instead, focusing their efforts on hot spots of PwPMI calls. Unfortunately, little is known about PwPMI call concentrations. Therefore, the current study seeks to contribute to the literature by not only examining the concentration of these calls within a small city, but also by introducing new methods and a new measure of concentration to the literature. Drawing on six years of calls for service data, the results reveal that a high proportion of PwPMI calls are concentrated in few spatial units -more so than in larger jurisdictions. Further analyses also reveal dispersion of these concentrations.

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“…The "crisis intervention team" (CIT) approach emphasizes training police officers how to respond to individuals in crisis and connect them with appropriate services (19). In contrast, the "co-response" model involves structuring explicit partnerships between police departments and professional mental health practitioners so they can simultaneously respond to incidents involving mental health crises (20)(21)(22)(23). A third and less common approach either delays or foregoes on-scene police involvement in certain incidents by relying on "a new branch of civilian first responders known as 'Community Responders'" (5).…”

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A community response approach to mental health and substance abuse crises reduced crime

Dee

Pyne

2022

Sci. Adv.

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Police officers often serve as first responders to mental health and substance abuse crises. Concerns over the unintended consequences and high costs associated with this approach have motivated emergency response models that augment or completely remove police involvement. However, there is little causal evidence evaluating these programs. This preregistered study presents quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of an innovative “community response” pilot in Denver that directed targeted emergency calls to health care responders instead of the police. We find robust evidence that the program reduced reports of targeted, less serious crimes (e.g., trespassing, public disorder, and resisting arrest) by 34% and had no detectable effect on more serious crimes. The sharp reduction in targeted crimes reflects the fact that health-focused first responders are less likely to report individuals they serve as criminal offenders and the spillover benefits of the program (e.g., reducing crime during hours when the program was not in operation).

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Exploring Police Response to Mental Health Calls in a Nonurban Area: A Case Study of Roanoke County, Virginia

Cited by 23 publications

References 42 publications

A call for de-policing crisis responses: Distressed children and youth caught between the mental health and police systems

A call for de-policing crisis responses: Distressed children and youth caught between the mental health and police systems

Examining the Spatial Concentration of Mental Health Calls for Police Service in a Small City

A community response approach to mental health and substance abuse crises reduced crime

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