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Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. Credit: Philip Pacheco/ AFP via Getty Images Oakland Becomes Latest City Looking To Take Police Out Of Nonviolent 911 Calls By at 7:47 am NPR Some of the boldest reform experiments underway in the wake of the national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism following George Floyd s murder are pilot projects in Denver, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and elsewhere. They re confronting hard questions about what role, if any, police should play in responding to calls for persons in a nonviolent mental health, drug and alcohol or homeless crises.

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