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The Line: How Police Officers Handle People Experiencing Mental Illness

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November 17, 2017 – The Santa Fe New Mexican reported this week on the response by a crisis negotiation team in the police department to a call with a man in crisis who was schizophrenic. Anthony Benavidez was shot and killed by police officers after barricading himself inside his apartment. The response by police is raising…

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Web Extra | APD Use of Force

We had a good conversation last week about the use of force by Albuquerque police. Jewel Hall of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center joined us, as well as the ACLU’s Peter Simonson and retired APD commander David M. Gilmore. As you’ll see, the original interview contains more nuance behind the opinions and…

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