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Baltimore Police improve behavioral health response but need to triple officers trained for crisis response, monitor team says

The Baltimore Police Department has made “substantial progress” in how its officers respond to people with behavioral health issues but fallen short of getting enough officers to take advanced training in how to manage people in crisis, a report by the consent decree monitor team found. Fewer than 10% of Baltimore Police officers have been trained in “CIT,” short for crisis intervention team, .

Baltimore Police improve behavioral health response but need to triple officers trained for crisis response, monitor team says

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Paul Bertonazzi's family seeks answers following his death from a severed neck while at Johns Hopkins Hospital psychiatric unit after being brought to the facility by Baltimore police

Paul Bertonazzi, 63, was reported to police in Baltimore on January 7 suffering from a mental health episode. He was taken to the psychiatric ward, and once in there his neck was broken.

He became paralyzed at Johns Hopkins. His death was a homicide, police say.