Minneapolis mental health crisis response program 'thrown into chaos'
An innovative Minneapolis program tapping unarmed mental health workers to respond to some 911 calls is in limbo five years after the city launched it to better help people in crisis and reduce police use of force. The behavioral crisis response team program faces new scrutiny over poor city oversight and disagreement among city leaders over which... The innovative Minneapolis program, which uses unarmed mental health workers to respond to 911 calls, is in trouble five years after it was launched to reduce police use of force. A new audit has found poor city oversight and disagreement among city leaders over who should run the program. The lack of documentation and disagreement over which vendor should run it has led to a lack of transparency about what services the city is paying for. This comes after similar audit findings were made in the wake of George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police.
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An innovative Minneapolis program tapping unarmed mental health workers to respond to some 911 calls is in limbo five years after the city launched it to better help people in crisis and reduce police... [763 symbols]
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