Milwaukee task force studying alternatives to police for mental health calls

A new task force in Milwaukee will study ways to send unarmed responders to some calls now handled by police. “Instead of having an officer with a gun, or a person with a gun showing up to a very volatile mental health crisis, we need someone who is trained to defuse those situations,” Milwaukee Ald. Chantia Lewis said in an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. Lewis said the task force will look at what other cities are doing and collect data on what kind of calls unarmed first responders could handle. She said some police

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