A study shows that first responders who are not police can be more effective for low-level incidents
In September 2020 Golda Barton’s 13-year-old autistic son became frantic with anxiety the first day she had to return to work after several months at home. His mother called 911 and asked for a crisis intervention team. When Salt Lake City police showed up, the boy ran. One of the officers chasing him shot him 11 times, leaving him in critical condition.
“There may be a propitious opportunity because of the larger political context, and these types of reforms should be appealing across the spectrum,” says Dee, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. “If your politics are ‘back the blue,’ you should be excited because many police say they don’t want to deal with the service calls being handled by community response.
The Support Team Assistance Response program in the Denver pilot is one of three types of reform-oriented programs intended for response to low-level offenses that may involve a mental health crisis. Two of the programs still involve police: one trains them in crisis intervention, and the other is a co-response model that partners cops with mental health professionals. The STAR program, which is modeled on an older program known as CAHOOTS that began in Eugene, Ore.
Compared with rates of criminal offenses in the same precincts before the program was piloted and with those in precincts that did not use it during the same six-month period, the researchers estimate that there were 1,376 fewer low-level offenses during the pilot. Expenditures for providing help may also drop when health workers show up instead of police. Dee and Pyne estimated that the $208,141 program cost Denver about $151 for each incident. In contrast, if the people involved were funneled through the criminal justice system, the estimated cost would be $646 per person, more than four times higher.
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