How can the toughest problems of urban life be addressed in a serious, sustained way? The purpose of this series, which began with “What To Do (and Not To Do) About Subway Safety” and will continue with installments on disorder, policing and other topics, is to deliver to policymakers the best ideas distilled into steps that can be taken now and longterm changes that must undergird sustained achievement.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/what-to-do-about-people-in-crisis-on-streets-and-subways
Tag: Mental Illnesses
Did prison just replace mental hospitals?
Deconstructing a statistical myth
— Read on www.slowboring.com/p/did-prison-just-replace-mental-hospitals
Why Eugene is ending its partnership with CAHOOTS crisis teams
After nearly three decades of working with CAHOOTS in various capacities, Eugene officials announced the city has cut ties with the mobile crisis intervention teams effective Monday.
The complete service reduction comes nearly two weeks after the White Bird Clinic announced it was temporarily reducing service hours for CAHOOTS mobile crisis teams in Eugene to one day a week while the organization navigates financial challenges.
— Read on www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2025/04/08/why-eugene-is-ending-its-partnership-with-cahoots-crisis-teams/82978680007/
Vital City | Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely and All of Us In Between
Reflections on this week’s verdict
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/daniel-penny-jordan-neely-and-all-of-us-in-between
US DoJ Weighs in for Advocates in Lawsuit against NYC’s Discriminatory Use of Police to Respond to Mental Health Crises – Legal Reader
DoJ supports advocates in suit to end discrimination against people with mental disabilities by sending police as first responders to mental health crises.
— Read on www.legalreader.com/us-doj-weighs-in-for-advocates-in-lawsuit-against-nycs-discriminatory-use-of-police-to-respond-to-mental-health-crises/
Access the court case here:
Baerga v. City of New York et al, No. 1:2021cv05762 – Document 193 (S.D.N.Y. 2024)
MTA outreach teams are involuntarily hospitalizing homeless people with signs of mental illness. We rode along for a shift. – Gothamist
Gothamist is a non-profit local newsroom, powered by WNYC.
— Read on gothamist.com/news/mta-outreach-teams-are-involuntarily-hospitalizing-homeless-people-with-signs-of-mental-illness-we-rode-along-for-a-shift
NIJ Special Report: Public Mass Shootings Research | National Institute of Justice
Abstract
Few events in American life shatter the public’s sense of well-being or shock the national conscience as much as someone repeatedly firing into a crowd. Scientific research supported by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) confirms the profound negative impact of public mass shootings on the average citizen’s sense of safety. For over two decades, NIJ has supported scientific studies that examine the public mass shooting problem from multiple angles. Since 2014, NIJ has invested in numerous research projects that study mass shootings and, specifically, public mass shootings.
— Read on nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/nij-special-report-public-mass-shootings-research
Get the report HERE
Lawsuit Challenges Unequal Response to Mental Health Emergencies in Washington, DC | ACLU of DC
The lawsuit is to prohibit Police from responding to Mental Health Emergency Calls.
We’re representing Bread for the City in a federal lawsuit challenging the District’s practice of sending police to mental health emergencies instead of mental health professionals.
— Read on www.acludc.org/en/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-unequal-response-mental-health-emergencies-washington-dc
New Jersey ARRIVE Together program could reform policing as we know it
In this report, Rashawn Ray analyzes data from 342 police service call cases involving New Jersey’s successful pilot of the ARRIVE Together program.
— Read on www.brookings.edu/research/new-jersey-arrive-together-program-could-reform-policing-as-we-know-it/
Investigative Report on the Role of Online Platforms in the Tragic Mass Shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022
The mass shooting in and around the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022 that claimed
the lives of ten individuals and injured three others was all the more horrific because of the white supremacist ideological motivation that fueled it and the shooter’s meticulous planning. The disturbing reality is that
this attack is part of an epidemic of mass shootings often perpetrated by young men radicalized online by
an ideology of hate. This report details what my office has learned about how the Buffalo shooter was first indoctrinated and radicalized through online platforms, and how he used these and other platforms to plan, implement, and promote these acts of terror.1 The report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the response of various online platforms in the wake of the Buffalo shooting. Readers should be cautioned that this report contains graphic textual descriptions of bigotry and violence, including quotes from the shooter’s own writing that, in our opinion, are necessary to contextualize and explain this story.
ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/buffaloshooting-onlineplatformsreport.pdf
Future of Policing 