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A new look at public safety.
Joined October 2021
NEW POLL: Broad bipartisan support for Quick Response Teams, experts trained to prevent overdose deaths. https://t.co/XAr53xbNLd
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Our new poll finds broad bipartisan support for Quick Response Teams that deploy experts trained to prevent overdose deaths.
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.@cabqacs is setting an example for community safety across the nation. We are grateful for all of their hard work here in our city. #OneAlbuquerque
A new poll conducted by Safer Cities reveals broad bipartisan support for community safety units. They spoke with voters across the country, using ACS as an example. Read the results here: https://t.co/LXkklYYYpl
#firstresponders #CommunitySafety #OneAlbuquerque #ACS #CABQACS
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A new poll conducted by Safer Cities reveals broad bipartisan support for community safety units. They spoke with voters across the country, using ACS as an example. Read the results here: https://t.co/LXkklYYYpl
#firstresponders #CommunitySafety #OneAlbuquerque #ACS #CABQACS
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NEW POLL: Community Responder Units--unarmed public safety officials who respond to minor injuries, abandoned vehicles, non-injury accidents, needle pickups, or other calls for service in the community--get broad bipartisan support https://t.co/5pEZj4EsH2
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Last year, Albuquerque, New Mexico, launched the country’s first community safety department—an unarmed civilian force that takes a public health approach to protecting public safety. Albuquerque...
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Columbus, Ohio's “911 Right Response Unit”, which deploys social workers and paramedics to mental health calls for service, “took 1,300 calls ... in its first year of operation and “saved police hundreds of hours of manpower.” https://t.co/MYsOMUi45Q
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Community Violence Intervention—What They’re Saying; Three new mobile crisis response programs launched this Fall; An Update From Columbus, Ohio responders program.
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NEW: 4-in-5 voters support creating Addiction Stabilization Units - specialized care centers inside of hospitals that provide comprehensive medical care to patients experiencing an overdose, as well as connecting them with social services like housing. https://t.co/BkEgAe5XwU
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“We want to return the vibrancy, the beauty, the healthy feeling of the streets of the Mission, but we want to do that without criminalizing poverty… and we believe the community ambassador program...
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NEW POLL: Voters overwhelmingly support Civilian Transit Security Ambassadors - highly visible, uniformed units that help keep watch over city trains, bus lines and transit centers
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Over the summer, Los Angeles County announced that it will add 300 unarmed, uniformed transit ambassadors to watch over the county’s trains and buses to “create a culture in which the ambassadors...
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NEW: There’s an emerging bipartisan political consensus that cities need to get Narcan—a life-saving drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose—into the hands of as many people as can responsibly administer it.
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There’s an emerging bipartisan political consensus that cities need to get Narcan—a life-saving drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose—into the hands of as many people as can responsi...
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NEW: What’s in a name? "Overdose prevention centers" are more popular than "safe injection sites" or "safe consumption sites"—even though those are just different names for the same thing. https://t.co/6dcADVuf1F
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Lawmakers, researchers, advocates, and journalists use different names to refer to a space that provides people with a safe and supervised place to use drugs in an effort to curb overdose deaths....
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NEW: Across the country, cities and counties are introducing non-law enforcement responders to address an array of situations. Our new poll finds overwhelming bipartisan support for a style of program getting new attention: unarmed security ambassadors. https://t.co/quD7ZgoLHP
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Our results show there is also a strong, bipartisan support for unarmed security ambassador programs. Cities and counties should consider replicating West Hollywood's program. But we also suspect...
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NEW: Minneapolis is further along than nearly any other city in reimagining public safety—having added a range of new unarmed public safety responders and related services, which collectively are shifting the city’s public safety ecosystem.
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In the two years since George Floyd’s murder, America has made significant progress towards re-envisioning the role that first responders, including the police, play in keeping communities safe....
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NEW: Oregon is the first state to be approved for Medicaid reimbursement for mobile crisis response services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “strongly encourages other states to follow Oregon’s model…” https://t.co/gLiMAov0m2
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Oregon is the first state to be approved for 85% Medicaid reimbursement for mobile crisis response services. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “strongly encourages other states to...
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NEW: As opioid deaths reach historic highs around the country, promising new overdose prevention programs are taking shape—and federal funds and opioid litigation settlement dollars could help launch more of them. https://t.co/DKdRS0UxLc
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Our suggested readings this week revolve around a central theme: as opioid deaths reach historic highs, promising new overdose prevention programs are taking shape—and federal funds and opioid...
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“This is about which expert should respond to a 911 call," an official said about a Texas county's new mobile crisis response team of healthcare experts sent to calls related to mental health. "We are sending the right experts to solve the right problems”
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“This is about which expert should respond to a 911 call,” Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, who helped spearhead HART’s creation, told Safer Cities: “When it's a robbery in progress, or a...
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NEW: Poll finds a majority of voters want more funding for Community Violence Intervention-trained community experts who intervene in conflicts to stop violence before it happens-and prefer CVI over increasing law enforcement to prevent gun violence https://t.co/Lflx5ATqk4
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Data For Progress has a new national poll on gun violence produced in partnership with the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention. Here’s what you need to know.
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"Providing [mobile crisis response teams] has been a win-win for clients and emergency personnel, not only freeing up law enforcement, but emergency medical providers who might have otherwise been dispatched to nonviolent, nonmedical emergencies." https://t.co/j73l1w3sw8
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For context: San Diego County has 16 mobile crisis teams responding to calls involving acute mental health crises. Each team includes a mental health clinician and two other healthcare experts. The...
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NEW: Mobile crisis response units have transformed from theoretical idea to functioning program in cities across the country. Here are key findings from a new national survey that capture the widespread public support these programs continue to enjoy: https://t.co/EYpDV49AUQ
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Over the past two years, mobile crisis response units have transformed from theoretical idea to functioning program in cities across the country. Here are two key findings from a new national Safer...
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NEW: Mental health crises have risen significantly on college campuses over the past decade. That’s why a number of universities are launching mobile crisis outreach teams, led by mental health experts, to serve as first responders for students in crisis. https://t.co/vHFHys5jo9
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Mental health crises, including suicide, have risen significantly on college campuses over the past decade. But a police response can inadvertently heighten trauma for students, healthcare professi...
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NEW: Reducing crime with mental health care and jobs, second-chance hiring, effective safe consumption sites, scaling public safety programs, and more. Here's our weekend reads: https://t.co/529BhpSZkL
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Scaling public safety programs, reducing crime with mental health care, second-chance hiring, and effective safe consumption sites.
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Excellent article on 988 and the vision for building a robust crisis system! #988 #savinglives
Starting tomorrow, when a person calls 988, a crisis counselor will pick up. They resolve most of these calls virtually. In some places, they can dispatch mobile crisis responders or send them to stabilization centers instead of jail or ERs. Our explainer:
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