Shedding light on the dark figure of police mental health calls for service

J Koziarski, L Ferguson, L Huey - Policing: a journal of policy …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent discussions around police reform have acquired a significant degree of traction.
Within these discussions have been calls to remove the police as primary responders to …

Why are tactical officers responding to 'routine'calls? Using police data to examine the presence of risk factors during seemingly low risk incidents

B Jenkins, T Semple, C Bennell - Police Practice and Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research has suggested that tactical officers across North America commonly
respond to calls characterized as 'routine,'which has raised significant concerns. However …

Data in Policing: An Integrative Review

M Afzal, P Panagiotopoulos - International Journal of Public …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The article brings together contemporary research on how new forms of data are reshaping
policing and police organizations. A systematic review of 192 papers (1970–2022) identifies …

Describing the scale and composition of calls for police service: A replication and extension using open data

S Langton, S Ruiter, T Verlaan - Police Practice and Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the scale and composition of emergency demand for police services in
Detroit, United States. The contribution is made in replication and extension of analyses …

Austerity-driven policification: Neoliberalisation, schools and the police in Britain

MM Laub - The Sociological Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article argues that as a consequence of austerity, police in England and Wales have
taken over important roles in welfare and social policy institutions. This renders those …

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Police Involvement in Mental Health Calls for Service

C Tartaro, R Lu - Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic not only threatened individuals' physical health but
also caused a serious strain on mental health and access to care. Analyzing 4 years of data …

The spatial (in) stability of mental health calls for police service

J Koziarski - Criminology & Public Policy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary Inspired by studies on crime concentration, scholars have begun
examining the spatial patterns of other issues under the police mandate, such as calls for …

Place-Based FACT: Treatment Outcomes and Patients' Experience with Integrated Neighborhood-Based Care

W van Ens, S Sanches, L Beverloo… - Community mental health …, 2024 - Springer
Locating specialized mental healthcare services in the neighborhood of people with severe
mental illnesses (SMI) has been suggested as a way of improving treatment outcomes by …

A spatial analysis of mental health-related calls for service in Atlantic City, New Jersey

C Tartaro, NM Sahin, I Onat - Police Practice and Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Police officers often find themselves responding to calls that do not involve
criminal behavior, but calls related to individuals experiencing emotional distress or mental …

Using Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models to Identify Indicators of Vulnerability in Police Incident Narratives

S Relins, D Birks, C Lloyd - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11878, 2024 - arxiv.org
Objectives: Compare qualitative coding of instruction tuned large language models (IT-
LLMs) against human coders in classifying the presence or absence of vulnerability in …