Mayor, police chief highlight strides made in crisis-intervention training and a lack of viable alternatives to take the burden from officers.
by San Jose police, city leaders defended police training, and blamed broader failures in mental health services and a lack of viable alternatives that could shift the burden of dealing with people in crisis away from police.
Mayor Matt Mahan said the news investigation affirmed the unfair expectations placed on police officers. “The most vulnerable populations in the city are the most targeted and more likely to be on the receiving end of force,” Jayadev said in an interview. “People who are homeless and people on the streets because of their mental-health issues and because of substance use.”
He said that since the adoption of mandatory crisis training in 2017, use of force in incidents that end in an involuntary mental health hold — colloquially known as a 5150 case — has decreased by 91%, and that force involving any level of psychiatric crisis dropped by 22%. The San Jose Police Officers’ Association echoed Mata’s criticisms about the slice of cases analyzed in the news report, which was limited to those resulting in significant injury or death – the only cases whose release is required by law. Police are allowed but not required to release cases in which they deem their use of force to have caused minor or no injuries, and San Jose in general does not release them.
Though Mata nodded to community-led programs and hybrid response models that pair clinicians with police officers, he noted that “they have not materialized at scale, and officers often remain the social workers of last resort,” and lauded his department’s work in that circumstance.
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