RIPPD: Mental illness is not a crime in NYC

This video documents Rights For Imprisoned People With Psychiatric Disabilities' (RIPPD) campaign to bring Community Crisis Intervention Teams to the NYPD. Commemorating the death of Iman Morales at the hand of New York City police, RIPPD wants to bring greater accountability to the NYPD in the way they deal with situations involving mentally ill people. Produced by the Red Channels media collective.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• RIPPD
• mental illness
• NYC
• Iman Morales
• NYPD
• police
• crisis intervention
• red channels
• silence opens doors
• crisis intervention teams
• police brutality

[SilenceOpensDoors]

I totally agree! It is a bad idea to have police officers with a tiny amount of training on how to handle situations with a person in an emotional crisis being put in a situation where they have to make life or death decisions. Remember: the NYPD officer who killed Iman Morales, a short time later, took his own life. The questions is what tools can we build to empower other potential players in that situation? Our plan explicitly calls for mental health workers AND consumers to play a part.

[graemebacque]

'Community crisis teams' mean the cops are still responding to peoples' emotional crises, plus they give expanded powers to 'mental health professionals'. This sets a dangerous precedent. The police shouldn't be dealing with these situations at all, either on their own or in tandem with anyone else!