Karen James interviews Terry Moss, police chief of St. Helens, Oregon. A Washington Post investigation revealed that of all fatal shootings by police in 2015, almost one quarter involved a person who was mentally unstable. Terry Moss, who promotes Crisis Intervention Training in Columbia County, explains how CIT is changing how police interact with people with mental illness. He discusses the challenges in his rural community of St. Helens and his department’s efforts to help divert people with mental illness from incarceration.
St. Helens Police Dept: http://www.ci.st-helens.or.us/police/
Crisis Intervention Training http://citinternational.org/
Distraught People, Deadly Results: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/06/30/distraught-peo...
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