Mobile Crisis Response Team for Mental Health in Action
Please watch this 10 minute clip from CNN on how effective and innovative the Street Crisis Response Team in San Francisco has been, as well as interviews with Steven Taylor's grandmother Addie Kitchen, who tell us that a program like this in San Leandro could have prevented his murder at the hands of former SLPD Officer Jason Fletcher. Click here for link. This program is not just cost-effective compared to traditional policing, but it actually solves problems in a sustainable and ethical way. The CATT program in Alameda is insufficient because it keeps police officers as the first point of contact and leaves it to their judgement on whether to call in a CATT team in situations that they have no expertise with. This is what defund the police means in action. This is what trauma-informed care looks like. This is how we deal with mental health crises. This is the model we need to be using in San Leandro and scaling it up to include other issues that police are not trained or equippe