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Everything to know about the April 8 eclipse in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #eclipse | SaltWireALBUQUERQUE - Unarmed emergency responders Nevada Sanchez and Sean Martin take a police dispatch call in southeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, a city with high rates of violent crime and police shootings.
Albuquerque, with the second highest rate of police killings among U.S. cities over 250,000 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, has set up one of the country's most ambitious civilian responder programs to offer help rather than law enforcement to people in crisis. Albuquerque's officer involved shootings hit a record in 2022, with 11 people killed - nearly as many as the 13 in New York City with about 15 times the population. Fatal police shootings eased to seven in 2023, still high. Around a third of incidents involved someone in mental health crisis.In the same period, the number of people ACS offered housing more than doubled to 1,454 while provision of mental or behavioral health services nearly tripled to 904, city data shows.
The Department of Justice has monitored Albuquerque police since 2014 after it found a pattern of excessive use of force. It recommends ACS take on more 911 calls. "It is absolutely our preference that whenever possible these civilian responders are responding without police," said Daniel Williams of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, citing the safety of people in crisis.
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