Chicago is already trying an initiative to dispatch clinicians with officers in some emergencies where a subject is having a mental health crisis.
A coalition of activists aims to add a symbolic question to the November ballot about funding non-police responses to 911 calls about mental health crises.The referendum would ask if Chicago should reopen all the closed mental health clinics that were operated by the public health department, as well as whether the city should support a team of mental health professionals to be dispatched to mental health emergency calls instead of police.
“I was able to get my life back,” Adams said while noting that others in Chicago deserve that same chance.The city already operates a Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement — or CARE — pilot program that launched last fall under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. CARE started off using a co-responder model, so police officers have still been involved in the pilot that operated in Lakeview and Uptown and in the Auburn Gresham and Chatham neighborhoods.
Last month, the city expanded the pilot program with a third team — its first operating without a police officer. That team responds to calls in the Southwest Side neighborhoods of Chicago Lawn, Gage Park, West Elsdon and West Lawn. While advocates for a non-police model for some 911 calls say officers are not best equipped to de-escalate those suffering mental health crises and that a police presence might antagonize them, others say such situations are volatile and that not having law enforcement present could be dangerous.
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