Body camera footage captured an Auburn police officer ditching his gear and swimming into the near‑freezing Owasco River to ...

Auburn, N.Y. — An Auburn police officer jumped into frigid water to save a person in a mental health crisis. Around 5:39 p.m.

A person in crisis on a pedestrian bridge over Interstate 225 brought northbound traffic to a halt in Aurora on Tuesday, as ...

Loved ones say Hall was a Bellarmine University grad who was caring, funny and full of joy. But she also had struggles, which ...

Recent police shootings of people in mental health crises have raised the stakes for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to take the NYPD out of mental health responses. Public safety experts and some of ...

Programs that send mental health clinicians instead of police to crisis calls are expanding nationwide, but inconsistent funding and limited Medicaid reimbursement threaten their long-term stability ...

Communities throughout the country are developing alternative models of mental health crisis response Human Rights Watch, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the Center for Racial and ...

Interactions between police and someone in psychiatric crisis can end in violence. Communities have been sending mental health professionals... They help police with mental health calls. So why are ...

The Hutto Police Department has welcomed a new team member to its ranks, making history for the county in the process.

A new approach to treating mental health emergencies is cheaper, frees police for crime-fighting and treats patients in a way ...