It's just untenable to ask cops to do all of this thing, all of these things. And we look elsewhere in the country, There are examples of police departments that took mental health out of the department's purview. In Eugene, Oregon... they reduced the number of calls they had to deal with by 20%. Where this was in Eugene, Oregon. And what they saw is that of the 24,000 mental health calls, that new approach was able to deal with all but 311 without police assistance for the 311. (33:57)
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