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Police Working to Better Cope with the Mentally Ill
by Megan Hall
WRNI (May 1, 2008)
When two mentally ill men died after encounters with the police this year, Rhode Island law enforcement officials and mental health advocates took notice. WRNI's health care reporter Megan Hall has 2 reports on the topic. The first looks at efforts in Rhode Island to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
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Rhode Island law enforcement is working with mental health advocates
to implement a mental health program called crisis intervention teams
or CIT. Over ten states and many more cities have turned to CIT after
mental health tragedies. In the second of this two part series WRNI's
Megan Hall reports on the crisis intervention team in New London, Connecticut.
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