The law has backfired on some of the state’s most vulnerable residents — partly because it’s unclear, and partly because of how it has been interpreted by police, who had warned the reforms could bring unintended consequences.
that followed the protests for racial justice that swept the nation in 2020. The law’s goal was to make it less likely police would use force unnecessarily or against the wrong person.
But police are still needed. In Washington, unarmed mental health professionals known as designated crisis responders can have people detained for evaluation if they pose a danger to themselves or others. “I said, ‘I don’t get it, why won’t you help him?’” Ostrander said. “I thought, are the police just doing this to use me as a pawn to get their story told, or what? It’s about my son’s life here.”The measure restricted when they could use physical force, but left unclear how to define that.
Steve Strachan, the executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, emphasized neither the attorney general’s opinion nor the August memo was binding, and police must carry out the law as written. As a result, when crisis responders ask police to detain patients, they might not come. If they do, they might go to great lengths trying to persuade a patient to get help — but decline to take a patient who’s unwilling to go.
In October and November, crisis responders documented 51 times when police declined to respond or to help transport a patient, according to the Washington State Health Care Authority.
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