#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response
“#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response” Last month, New York City joined dozens of other cities experimenting with “alternatives” to policing by launching the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, in a pilot study in parts of Harlem. The program dispatches social workers and paramedics to certain mental-health-related…