Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental health crisis when he called 911 for help getting his car unstuck in a Colorado mountain town last year.
Convinced that supernatural beings were after him, he balked when sheriff's deputies told him to get out of his car. The officers shouted, threatened and coaxed, body camera video shows. Glass prayed:"Dear Lord, please, don't let them break the window."
Simon and Sally Glass comfort each other during an emotional news conference in Denver on Sept. 13, 2022. Two Colorado sheriff’s deputies needlessly escalated a fatal standoff with their son, Christian Glass, who was shot and killed while experiencing a “mental health crisis.” As part of a $19 million settlement this spring 2023 with Glass’ parents, Colorado’s Clear Creek County in August 2023 joined a growing roster of U.S.
In New York, a more than $40 million-a-year program dubbed B-HEARD answered about 3,500 calls last year, and mental health advocates criticize it as anemic. "We really think that every single B-HEARD response is just a better way that we, the city, are providing care to people," said Laquisha Grant of the New York Mayor's Office of Community Mental Health.
Activists participate in a rally to call for peer-led, non-police response to mental health crisis calls, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in New York. The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing police from some nonviolent 911 calls and sending behavioral health clinicians. Initiatives in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Columbus, Ohio, and Houston had combined annual budgets topping $123 million as of June 2023.
and EMTs resolve about half of calls by talking to people or taking them to social service or community health centers, rather than hospitals. Activists participate in a rally to call for peer-led, non-police response to mental health crisis calls, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in New York. The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing police from some nonviolent 911 calls and sending behavioral health clinicians. Initiatives in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Columbus, Ohio, and Houston had combined annual budgets topping $123 million as of June 2023.
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