Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessar...

Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessar...

Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessar...

Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessar...

Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn't necessar...

In the latest example of how Pacific Northwest communities are reimagining policing, Skagit County, Washington, is sending out civilian mental health crisis specialists alongside sheriff deputies...

The timing was a coincidence, but the stakes have never been higher.

Summary of S.4791 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Community-Based Response Act

Police shootings in Baltimore and elsewhere involving people undergoing behavioral and mental health issues have amplified calls to rely less on police in those situations and more on outside...

Summary of S.4441 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): CAHOOTS Act

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden announced plans to introduce a bill in the U.S. Senate aimed at bringing CAHOOTS response model mental health services to cities and towns across the nation through increased Me…

Dallas had a disastrous history of police violence during emergency mental health calls. The RIGHT Care program shifted the power to clinicians and found success.

The CRISES Act would have aided community-based emergency responders.

After the California city went bankrupt, Stockton cut its police department by nearly a quarter. Eight years later, it's a lesson on what fewer police can and can't do.

Austin’s major defunding effort closely tails that of Seattle, which ended in the resignation of Police Chief Carmen Best.

It’s been scrawled across the pavement in front of government buildings in bright...

Police unions, prison guard unions, district attorney associations, and others in the law enforcement lobby have long wielded their power to nix any reforms that attack the carceral state. To defund...

San Francisco will soon launch the nation's largest experiment that diverts most nonviolent mental health and behavioral crisis calls away from police and to specially trained mobile units.

San Francisco will soon launch the nation's largest experiment that diverts most nonviolent mental health and behavioral crisis calls away from police and to specially trained mobile units.

The concept of reallocating money from the police has gathered increasing steam in the wake of the protests sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police in the U.S.

Camden, New Jersey, dissolved its police department and replaced it after corruption rendered the existing agency unfixable. Now, seven years later, the city's crime has dropped by close to half.