After three police killings last summer, Baltimore proposes new city agency for responding to behavioral health emergencies
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen announced on September 14 their answer to the deadly gaps in Baltimore’s behavioral health crisis response system: a third branch of the city’s public safety infrastructure, known as the Department of Neighborhood Safety, that will dispatch “alternative responders” for nonviolent emergency calls. Much like the […]
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