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Justice Department Finds Civil Rights Violations by Phoenix Police Department and City of Phoenix
Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that the Phoenix Police Department (PhxPD) and the City of Phoenix (City) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
Justice Department Finds Civil Rights Violations by the Louisville Metro Police Department and Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government
Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (Louisville Metro) engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law. The Department also announced that it has entered into an agreement in principle with Louisville Metro and LMPD, which have committed to resolving the department’s findings through a court-enforceable consent decree with an independent monitor, rather than contested litigation.
Central Iowa arrests go down thanks to new crisis intervention program
The new program aims to divert people suffering a mental health crisis to better care and not jail.
St. Petersburg social workers go to 911 calls. What’s the program’s future?
“We’re leading the way right now in law enforcement from this little city,” one community organizer said.
In Washington County, 'boots-on-the-ground' social work is transforming police response to people in crisis
The county plans to triple the number of social workers who are paired with police to respond to some calls for help.
Mediation Response Unit (MRU) | Dayton Mediation
Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve Learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
In the four years since George Floyd’s murder, many sweeping attempts to reform policing have faltered. But one proposal that has taken hold across the country, and continues to spread, is launching alternative first response units that send unarmed civilians, instead of armed officers, to some emergencies.
In Dayton, Ohio, trained mediators are dispatched to neighbor disputes and trespassing calls. In Los Angeles, outreach workers who have lived through homelessness, incarceration or addiction respond to 911 calls concerning people living on the street. In Anchorage, Alaska, trained clinicians and paramedics are showing up to mental health crises.
“The reason why the police response is so harmful may not be because there’s an excessive force incident — it’s because you’re not getting effective treatment,” said Michael Perloff, interim legal director for the ACLU of D.C. and one of the lawyers on the case. “If you called the EMTs for your broken leg and they sent someone who didn’t know how to set a broken bone, that’s denying you effective care. People with mental health crises, that’s their experience with emergency response services.”
There have been no known major injuries of any community responder on the job so far, according to experts. And data suggests unarmed responders rarely need to call in police. In Eugene, Oregon, which has operated the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (known locally as CAHOOTS) response team since 1989, roughly 1% of their calls end up requiring police backup, according to the organization. Albuquerque responders have asked for police in 1% of calls, as of January. In Denver, the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) had never called for police backup due to a safety issue as of July 2022, the most recent data available. In Durham, members of the Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team (HEART) reported feeling safe on 99% of calls.
Neurodiversity Is About Everyone — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics.
Stricter Covid rules could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives, new study finds
Restrictions in Northeastern states likely ‘saved many lives’ say researchers
15 Things Deaf People Have To Deal With That You've Never Thought About
While it is incredibly difficult to understand exactly what it’s like to be deaf, most individuals are aware that hearing difficulty comes with a unique set of challenges. This forces those who are deaf to experience the world in an entirely different way than the rest of the population, and not...
ignite after burning
a horny and contemplative missive for cancer season, plus the beginnings of a 2024 full assed revision of my 2020 half assed disabled prepper guide and some musings on post internet disability justice
American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists
Walking alone to the grocery store is, for me, like walking through a creepy hallway at night. Why? Because America is filled with liminal spaces.
Liminal Spaces: The Creepy and Weird Places That Fascinate the Internet
Chances are you know the feeling of encountering an environment that feels a bit off, even if you can’t quite put your finger on why.
Appreciating the beauty and the limitations of human scale through the art of non-doing
More and more people are discovering the timeless wisdom curated by Laozi for survival within the mono-cult of busyness. The Chinese concept of Pu is a Daoist metaphor that points us towards earlie…
Opinion | I Was a Kamala Harris Skeptic. Here’s How I Got Coconut-Pilled.
Harris’s success and setbacks could make her the ideal candidate against a man who admits no mistakes, has no humility and is utterly unrelatable.
Strict mask, vaccine rules could have saved as many as 250K lives, says new study
Stricter COVID-19 restrictions could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the states that refused to institute them, though efforts to close nursing homes and schools likely caused more har…
A Quantitative Systematic Literature Review of Combination Punishment Literature: Progress Over the Last Decade - Asude Sumeyye Ayvaci, Alison Dorothea Cox, Andreas Dimopoulos, 2024
This review evaluated single-case experimental design research that examined challenging behavior interventions utilizing punishment elements. Thirty articles p...
A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back.
Wexton spoke on the House floor Wednesday using an "augmentative and alternative communication" program.
Phil Bildner: Half a Life, Half My Life - The Author Village
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Tom Kindlon: "“Why Dianna can’t exercise” youtube.com/shorts/xALv9... One-minute video featuring David Putrino on the Physics Girl’s popular YouTube channel Watch the full interview here: www.youtube.com/live/v8HWt9g... #LongCovid #PEM #PostExertionalMalaise" — Bluesky
“Why Dianna can’t exercise” https://youtube.com/shorts/xALv93I6xLo?si=y4LrlGlN6eBdSAs0 One-minute video featuring David Putrino on the Physics Girl’s popular YouTube channel Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/live/v8HWt9g4L0k?si=Dn3k-wxkVV0K65u4&t=31913 #LongCovid #PEM #PostExertionalMalaise
How is mad studies different from anti-psychia
This chapter discusses the differences between anti-psychiatry, critical
psychiatry and mad studies by describing the distinctions
Fuck Progressive Purity Politics.
New terminally online archetype just dropped: the Peripheral Progressive. You won’t find them door knocking, participating in legitimate political ac...
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.
The looming public health challenge of long covid
Long covid presents a growing public health challenge worldwide, with potentially tens of millions affected by lingering post-infection symptoms. On Thursday, July 25 at 9:00 a.m. ET, join Washington Post Live for conversations featuring leading policymakers, medical researchers and first-hand accounts about the causes, prevalence and long-term impacts of long covid.
How Neuroinflammation May Be Knocking out the Muscles in Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia - Health Rising
Geoff’s Narrations The GIST The Blog It’s always seemed that both the brain and the muscles must be involved in diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and long COVID. The question has always been how? A study just showed up could answer that question. The problem starts […]
Analysis | Care gaps grow as OB/GYNs flee Idaho
A high-profile exodus of OB-GYNs from rural Idaho and other states with strict abortion bans has far-reaching impacts on women’s health care.
Ways of Being, Knowing and Doing: An Anthology for Neurodivergent-Informed Practice
The community has come together to support the Palestinian people. The result is an incredible ebooklet edited by Lisa Chapman and Kim Mears.
Reporting participatory methods and author positionality in autism - Sue Fletcher-Watson, 2024
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Mask Bans Are an Insult to Disabled People and Protesters Alike
The bans threaten disabled people and protesters alike.