Expert slams NYC's data on sending social workers to 911 calls, suffers from selection bias
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The New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health has released the results of the first month of a new program designed to send social workers and other unarmed first responders to answer certain 911 calls.
And while the program may have freed up officers from having to respond to about 20% of specialized mental health 911 calls, experts don’t foresee the replacement or abolition of police. "What you do when you disarm cops or when you send unarmed civilians in to do cop’s job is to expose civil employees to substantial risk, and then say you don't get the tools of the trade that are requisite to minimizing that risk," Charles F. Lehman, of the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, told Fox News Tuesday. "It's like denying a firefighter or mine worker or electrical worker his safety equipment."More Related News