examining circumstance or issues, you must have total clarity of the performance of that particular officer and how they interact with an individual that may not see that individual as a law enforcement officer but may, because of the severity or the huh hallucinations may see this individual as a threat against the individual. understanding the uniqueness of an individual in crisis will back off to allow a cooperation and not to engage. but that s clearly within the training of the officer. i cannot give you absolutes. vice president marshall: you answered the best you can. i wanted to put this before the body my major concerns here. if i can get some help with that, i would appreciate that. president mazzucco: for sake of clarity, i know the answer to the question, and i know you don t want to answer this, but what has been the change in flubs in officer-involved shoot change in numbers in officer-involved shootings? it has been a dramatic decraste crease. we are not
school resource officers handle things differently because they are at a school site. if that is one of the things that you might interface differently is because they are at a school site. they are trained not to necessarily arrest. they go and talk the kid down there. the last thing, they if that s the type of thing you are talking about, that s fine. that s the kind of clarity i need. i want to know what the officers are going to do in those situations. for me i think that s crucial. what you are talking about a school resource officer. just to let you know, there is a serious effort to put c.i.t. officers within that role of school resource officers. it goes hand-in-happened because many of our it goes hand-in-hand because many of our people have, youth, have mental health issues. but the special zation specialization you were talking about, when a call comes in, and the dispatcher is screening the call, and clearly the dispatcher indicates the call is about a per
school resource officers handle things differently because they are at a school site. if that is one of the things that you might interface differently is because they are at a school site. they are trained not to necessarily arrest. they go and talk the kid down there. the last thing, they if that s the type of thing you are talking about, that s fine. that s the kind of clarity i need. i want to know what the officers are going to do in those situations. for me i think that s crucial. what you are talking about a school resource officer. just to let you know, there is a serious effort to put c.i.t. officers within that role of school resource officers. it goes hand-in-happened because many of our it goes hand-in-hand because many of our people have, youth, have mental health issues. but the special zation specialization you were talking about, when a call comes in, and the dispatcher is screening the call, and clearly the dispatcher indicates the call is about a per
they are trained not to necessarily arrest. they go and talk the kid down there. the last thing, they if that s the type of thing you are talking about, that s fine. that s the kind of clarity i need. i want to know what the officers are going to do in those situations. for me i think that s crucial. what you are talking about a school resource officer. just to let you know, there is a serious effort to put c.i.t. officers within that role of school resource officers. it goes hand-in-happened because many of our it goes hand-in-hand because many of our people have, youth, have mental health issues. but the special zation specialization you were talking about, when a call comes in, and the dispatcher is screening the call, and clearly the dispatcher indicates the call is about a person with mental illness, that person has a listing of available c.i.t. officers and will dispatch at least one particular c.i.t. officer so that scene event. other officers that are appropri
and how law enforcement proceeds to follow with their training, and as i difficult situation. but for somebody to come before you and present any program that says if you do this you will never have another tragic event within your community would be very wreckless in making those kinds of comments. the crisis intervention team is an approach that addresses the broader issue of the community. it also allows the officers that have many years of experience in their own law enforcement training to work with mental illness issues from a level of the training that they receive as a c.i.t. officer. every officer is faced with circumstances that are challenging. it is going to fall back on his or her training and on perception of what is it before them. the c.i.t. officer as a process allows an officer with excellent judgment and maturity as what was suggested by the association member of experience to be critical but that officer is going to have to make that decision. c.i.t. is an