Crisis Intervention Training is being implemented in many police departments.
Images of Angelo Quinto are displayed at his family's home in Antioch, Calif., March 16, 2021. Quinto died three days after being restrained on Dec. 23, 2020, in police custody while having a mental health crisis.More than three years after watching her brother die in an encounter with police at her family's California home, Bella Quinto Collins said her brother's last words still haunt her.
John Burris, an attorney who represented the Quinto family in a lawsuit filed against the city of Antioch, told ABC News that Angelo Quinto died needlessly. by the police officers involved in Angelo's case based on the autopsy and an analysis of the police encounter with Angelo. Stevens launched a CIT program in the San Antonio Police Department in 2008. One year later, SAPD successfully helped resident Jeff Ownes, who was experiencing a paranoia episode.
Lake County officers refer an individual experiencing a mental health crisis to COaST, but if no specialist is available, a CIT-certified officer will address the emergency.
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