Mental health professionals paired with paramedics will replace cops on some Chicago 911 calls in a first for Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s troubled city.
The Chicago Times reports in one future pilot program, a paramedic will be dispatched alongside a mental health clinician for “behavioral health calls.”
In another, a paramedic will work with a “recovery specialist” on calls involving substance abuse.
The response restructure comes as Chicago Police pension board figures reveal more cops have left the force so far in 2021 than did in the whole of 2018.
In total, 363 officers retired between January and June compared to 339 in 2018, as crime continues to soar across the city.
The number of homicides and shootings in Chicago spiked dramatically in 2020, ending with more bloodshed than in all but one year in more than two decades, as Breitbart News reported.
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A mental health professional who is ready to face Chicago’s depraved and drugged up murderous thugs must be either suicidal, or gray matter deficient.
Would you trust a shrink who lacks brains?
it’s a good idea actually
cops are horrible with the mentally ill or anybody who doesn’t obey their every command and bow down to worship them
I think Mrs. Lori Heavyhand should start with herself first. She is a total mental case nutjob who can use all the psychotherapy she can get.