Category: Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)

QPP 32: The Changes Are Upon Us

In this episode, Peter and Nick announce the big change that Nick mentioned a couple of episodes ago: this is Nick’s last episode. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15540615 Now, now, it’s not that they had a spat (which is a good thing, since they are now close-by neighbors), but rather that Nick has taken a new job at…
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QPP 14: Shoot? Or Don’t Shoot?

A move is afoot to allow warning shots by police; a Baltimore officer doesn’t shoot and it works out; a Seattle officer does the same thing and…well… Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383197 An article in USA Today discusses the nascent movement to consider allowing warning shots. Nick and Peter (sort of) disagree. In Baltimore, Officer Angel Villaronga shows…
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QPP 12: Divert to Where? Mental Health Policing in America

This Quality Policing Podcast Extra explores some of the best – and the worst – in policing of the mentally ill in America. Episode is here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383198 There are ten times more people with serious mental illnesses in America’s prisons and jails than in state mental hospitals. Some of our nation’s largest psychiatric in-patient clinics…
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