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City Council honors year-old unarmed crisis response program after 6,000-plus dispatches
Summary
Councilmembers recognized the city’s Unarmed Model of Crisis Response (UMCR) for a year of operations, citing data from providers: roughly 6,000 calls handled, an average on-scene cost of $35, and backup requested from police on about 4% of calls.
The Los Angeles City Council recognized the first year of the city’s Unarmed Model of Crisis Response (UMCR), a network of community-based teams that respond to selected nonviolent crises without uniformed police officers.
Why it matters: Council leaders described UMCR as an alternative public-safety response designed to reduce traumatic outcomes and to deploy clinicians, crisis specialists and peer responders to incidents where a nonarmed approach is appropriate.
What council heard: Councilmember Blumenfield and Councilmember Eunice Hernandez led the presentation on…
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