PRESENTATION: POLICING AND MENTAL HEALTH , coming up next week January 13 at 7 p.m. It is a free ZOOM event and pre-registration is requested:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcO2qrTMvE9BSTp9l7TXtcb8pv7kRG89R

Policing and Mental Health will address how police interact with people in a mental health crisis, from the perspective of law enforcement, victims, and legal advocacy. Discussion will include police training and other policing reform approaches that can help mitigate overreaction and unnecessary violence.

League of Women Voters of Vermont member Madeline Motta will moderate the panel who includes:
- Brian Peete, Chief of Police, Montpelier
- A.J. Ruben, Supervising Attorney, Disability Rights Vermont
- Karim Chapman, Executive Director, Psychiatric Survivors