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Police should not be involved in mental health incidents, Australian report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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It's more than just Australians saying this, C.A.H.O.O.T.S. reduced deaths and violent incidents against the mentally ill in crisis scenarios when it was deployed in Oregon, but ofc we won't implement it anywhere else. Police almost always escalate the situation.