Everyday police work during mental health encounters: A study of call resolutions in Chicago and their implications for diversion.
Everyday police work during mental health encounters: A study of call resolutions in Chicago and their implications for diversion.
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警察在心理健康遭遇期间的日常工作：对芝加哥呼叫解决方案及其对转移的影响的研究。
DOI：
10.1002/bsl.2324
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发表时间：
2017
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1.4
通讯作者：
Wood,JenniferD
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作者：
Watson,AmyC;Wood,JenniferD
近几十年来，人们一直关注警察对经历心理健康危机的人的反应。危机干预小组（CIT）模式是一项开创性的努力，以提高安全性，减少逮捕和加强使用紧急精神病评估。随着CIT的建立，围绕如何进一步加强警察与公共卫生的联系，包括从医院急诊部门分流，出现了新的讨论。在这种情况下，本文评估了目前的警察做法，利用描述性数据对芝加哥警方在3年内处理的428个心理健康相关电话进行了三角分析，并从21个深入的警官访谈中获得了见解。在这些电话中，医院运送比逮捕更频繁。此外，非正式干预-没有任何法律的行动或住院治疗-被最经常使用，这说明了精神健康相关遭遇的“灰色地带”性质。总的来说，这些数据揭示了解决长期脆弱性的非危机转移选择的必要性。
In recent decades, there has been sustained focus on police responses to persons experiencing mental health crises. The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model has been a seminal effort to improve safety, reduce arrests and enhance the use of emergency psychiatric assessment. With CIT well established, new discussions have emerged around how to further enhance the police–public health interface, including diversion from hospital emergency departments. In this context, this article takes stock of current police practices, utilizing descriptive data on 428 mental health‐related calls addressed by Chicago Police over 3 years triangulated with insights from 21 in‐depth officer interviews. During these calls, hospital transports were conducted more often than arrests. Moreover, informal interventions – without any legal action or hospitalization – were used most often, speaking to the “gray zone” nature of mental health‐related encounters. Taken together, the data reveal the need for non‐crisis diversion options that address chronic vulnerabilities.