Talk:Police crisis intervention team

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Sources for expanding the article

I'm planning to expand this article. These are some of the sources I intend to use:

• Pauly, Megan (11 October 2013). "How Police Officers Are (or Aren't) Trained in Mental Health". The Atlantic.
• Goode, Erica (25 April 2016). "For Police, a Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness". The New York Times.
• "What Is CIT?". National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
• "About CIT". University of Memphis CIT Center. University of Memphis.

—Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
credit› 22:37, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Texas

I deleted the following, because it is particular to a small area:

Bexar County, San Antonio The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and San Antonio Police Department in partnership with the Center for Healthcare Services (the local mental health authority) began its CIT program in October 2003.

The first CIT class was conducted in 2003 at the San Antonio State Hospital. A team of Houston PD Officers led by Officer Frank Webb traveled from Houston to “train the trainers”. This was the initial impetus for CIT development in San Antonio.

The goal of our CIT effort is to provide more efficient service to the community when responding to calls where a mentally ill person is in crisis, and to ensure the safety of both the officer and mental health consumer. CIT Officers are trained to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and the medications used to treat them. CIT Officers have developed a close partnership with the local mental health authority, the Center for Health Care Services, The University Hospital System, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the many public and private mental health providers in the City of San Antonio. Our community partnership has led to more effective service to persons with mental illness, the diversion of mentally ill persons from jail to treatment, and a commitment from the community to build and fund a Crisis Care Center which will provide "24/7" medical and mental health care exclusively for law enforcement officers.

Maurreen (talk) 05:24, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

More resources

Here are more. Maurreen (talk)

@Maurreen: Thanks! I've added more info and wrapped 'em up in cite templates so they're ready to copy & paste into the article. Plus, the Portland Press Herald series led me to a couple more articles that look promising. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
credit› 23:32, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Looks like there's some good stuff in the search results from Google Scholar, too. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
credit› 23:55, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

• "Bill planned to require CIT in NYC". Brooklyn Reader. 2 November 2016.
• Fuller, Doris A.; Lamb, H. Richard; Biasotti, Michael; Snook, John (December 2015). Overlooked in the Undercounted: The Role of Mental Illness in Fatal Police Encounters (PDF) (Report). Treatment Advocacy Center.
• "Deadly Force: Police and the Mentally Ill, Part 1". Portland Press Herald. 8 December 2012.
• Turkel, Tux (8 December 2012). "When police pull the trigger in crisis, the mentally ill often are the ones being shot". Portland Press Herald. MaineToday Media.
• Turkel, Tux (10 December 2012). "Crisis Intervention Team model gives police tools, education". Portland Press Herald. MaineToday Media.
• Lopez, German (18 October 2016). "How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system". Vox.
• Russell, Jenna; Rezendes, Michael; Cramer, Maria; Helman, Scott; Wallack, Todd (6 July 2016). "The Desperate and the Dead: Police Confrontations". Boston Globe.
• Lowery, Wesley; Kindy, Kimberly; Alexander, Keith L.; Tate, Julie; Jenkins, Jennifer; Rich, Steven (30 June 2015). "Distraught People, Deadly Results". Washington Post.
• King, Shaun (15 August 2016). "If nurses and doctors can treat the mentally ill without shooting them to death, so can American police". New York Daily News.
• Yurkanin, Amy (17 August 2016). "In Alabama, mental illness is often a factor in police shootings". AL.com. Alabama Media Group.