Police in America have shot and killed 1,939 people in the middle of a mental health crisis since 2015. That’s 20% of all police killings in the last decade.
Those numbers have helped fuel a movement.
Instead of armed police, more than half of the country’s largest cities now send social workers and EMTs – a new generation of first responders – on 911 calls involving mental illness, addiction or suicidal thoughts.
As these programs kept popping up, Tradeoffs producer Ryan Levi dove deep into how one community is standing up one of these new programs.
Introducing The Fifth Branch – a special podcast series from Tradeoffs and @TheMarshallProject. The three-part series will bring listeners to Durham, North Carolina, to meet the people who are reimagining the crisis response.
The Fifth Branch follows their journey to get this program off the ground, to make sure it is keeping people safe, and to understand how the community is grappling with what the size and scope of this work should be.
Listen and subscribe to The Fifth Branch wherever you get your podcasts and learn more at tradeoffs.org/thefifthbranch.
Tradeoffs Presents: The Fifth Branch
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