Past Contest Entries

Law Enforcement Mental Health Training Not a Panacea

As law enforcement agencies nationwide grapple with how best to handle the mentally ill, Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training is becoming more popular. But despite the adoption of such training and its many successes, problems still happen. We visit two mothers in Ventura County, both with bipolar sons who’ve had run-ins with the law and we see how CIT training worked and where the system nevertheless failed.

Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2014

Category:

  • Consumer/Feature (large)

Affiliation:

Southern California Public Radio

Reporter:

Stephanie Anna O’Neill, Health Care Correspondent

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