Can mental health training reduce use of force by police?
Colorado Springs law enforcement trains officers in mental health crisis to better respond to 911-calls — your weekly justice news

This week I wrote about law enforcement participating in a week-long training to give officers better tools to deal with citizens in mental health crisis for the Colorado Springs Indy.
This type of training is a sort of middle road between defund the police and keeping things as they are. It acknowledges the reality that police respond to the majority o…