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Proponents push City Council to fund Boston People’s Response nonpolice crisis-response pilot
Summary
Dozens of public commenters urged the council to allocate $4 million to a community-led, nonpolice crisis-response pilot called Boston People’s Response (BPR), saying community responders build trust and avert harms that can arise when police respond to behavioral-health or mental-health crises.
Dozens of public commenters told the Boston City Council’s Ways and Means Committee on May 8 that council should fund Boston People’s Response, a community-led, nonpolice crisis-response pilot, and that $4 million be allocated to scale the program.
Speakers described the BPR model as a free, community-based alternative to police response for mental-health and behavioral-health crises and said it would be more approachable for people who distrust police. “Boston…
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