Police Reform From the Perspective of Mental Health Services and Professionals: Our Role in Social Change.
Psychiatr Serv
; 72(9): 1085-1087, 2021 09 01.
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ABSTRACT
Calls to defund and reform police agencies have been emphasized in recent public discourse. Demands range from shuttering police agencies to shifting resources and responsibility for responding to noncriminal social and behavioral health vulnerabilities to the health and social services sector. This Open Forum discusses how police officers became primary responders to behavioral health concerns, how this arrangement disproportionately and negatively affects communities of color, and several solutions to these circumstances. The mental health field must advocate for the policies and resources needed to address urgent mental health needs and crisis response. Several conditions for successful outcomes that do not further compound racial inequities are discussed.
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2021
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