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City council agrees to study community responder model after LEAP presentation
Summary
After a 90-minute presentation from Law Enforcement Action Partnership consultants, Ypsilanti council instructed city staff to begin a six- to eight-month assessment of a community responder program to handle select nonviolent 911 calls.
Ypsilanti city council asked the city manager to start a consultant-led assessment of a community responder model after a presentation by Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) representatives on Aug. 12.
The council heard from Tom Thompson, a retired police chief now working with LEAP, and Amos Erwin, a LEAP consultant, who described unarmed, trained responders that handle low‑risk 911 calls for issues such as homelessness, behavioral health crises and nonviolent public‑order incidents. Thompson said the programs free sworn officers to focus on violent crime while offering “specialized compassionate care” for people with mental‑health or substance‑use needs.
LEAP told council members the model…
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