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Katie Porter Advocates For Mental Health Response Units To Allow Police Officers To Focus On Crime - YouTube - "During House Floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) spoke about The Mental Health Justice Act."
She noted that over 1/5 of 911 calls are for mental-health problems and that we should not criminalize mental illness. She claimed that 1/4 of cops' encounters with mentally ill people lead to the cop killing that person. Her bill gives funds to local communities to create squads of trained mental-health professionals to respond to people with mental-health crises. She says that cops can then focus on violent crime and other such things, and she claims that some cops support her in that.
I like her framing, because it seems very pro-cop instead of anti-cop like "defund the police". I've thought of a slogan that I think is MUCH better: "alternatives to policing."
The bill itself: H.R.8542 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Mental Health Justice Act of 2022 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Roll Call 452 | Bill Number: H. R. 8542
The vote:
D: Y 220
R: Y 3, N 206, nv 3
Tot: Y 223, N 206 nv 3
Among the three Republicans to vote for it was Michelle Steel, R-CA, someone whom KP cited as co-leading on the bill, along with Ayanna Pressley, Tony Cardenas, and Mary Gay Scanlon, all Democrats.
It didn't go anywhere in the Senate, however.
She noted that over 1/5 of 911 calls are for mental-health problems and that we should not criminalize mental illness. She claimed that 1/4 of cops' encounters with mentally ill people lead to the cop killing that person. Her bill gives funds to local communities to create squads of trained mental-health professionals to respond to people with mental-health crises. She says that cops can then focus on violent crime and other such things, and she claims that some cops support her in that.
I like her framing, because it seems very pro-cop instead of anti-cop like "defund the police". I've thought of a slogan that I think is MUCH better: "alternatives to policing."
The bill itself: H.R.8542 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Mental Health Justice Act of 2022 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Roll Call 452 | Bill Number: H. R. 8542
The vote:
D: Y 220
R: Y 3, N 206, nv 3
Tot: Y 223, N 206 nv 3
Among the three Republicans to vote for it was Michelle Steel, R-CA, someone whom KP cited as co-leading on the bill, along with Ayanna Pressley, Tony Cardenas, and Mary Gay Scanlon, all Democrats.
It didn't go anywhere in the Senate, however.
on Twitter: "LAPD expects people to buy that during a training exercise they “accidentally” beat a cop (who was investigating 4 other cops for sexual assault) to death so brutally that his spine was broken in 3 places. It has “suicide by 6 shots to the back of head” energy." / Twitter
