Today’s Solutions: December 07, 2024

Oakland to launch alternative

Oakland to launch alternative response program for nonviolent 911 calls

Following successful alternative policing programs in Denver and Newark, Oakland, California is the latest city to adopt such a program with an initiative to redirect nonviolent, noncriminal calls to mobile teams of civilians.  Projected to launch this fall, the program is called Mobile Read More...

Chris Richardson and Carleigh Sailon with the Mental Health Center of Denver (left and right) and Spencer Lee, a Denver Health paramedic, stand in front of the Support Team Assisted Response's new van.

Denver’s unarmed 911 response team arrested no one in its first 6 months

The waves of protests in 2020 against systematic racism and police brutality led to calls for cities to change their policing systems. Beyond just discriminatory policing, a big part of the problem was that police officers were being called on to respond to non-criminal 911 calls, something they Read More...