Mental Health Studied To Help Prevent Officer Shootings
Jennifer Moffatt2011-01-07T20:08:24-08:00A group of local police and mental health experts are in their ninth month of studying how to eliminate unnecessary Portland police encounters with people suffering from mental illness and have reviewed 40 nonfatal encounters since March 2009. "If we don't fund the community health system, unfortunately we're vulnerable for these events to occur," said [...]