https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-07/lafd-calls-on-city-to-end-a-mobile-mental-health-response-program-that-was-sound-in-theory
It was a "good idea" but sending mental health workers on non emergency calls did not actually help things.
$4 million spent so far on this feel good liberal idea.
It was a "good idea" but sending mental health workers on non emergency calls did not actually help things.
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He wrote that workers with the county Department of Mental Health "lacked the requisite training and thus were unqualified to perform medical assessments or provide emergency medical services."
Hsiao said the lack of training offset any benefit to the Fire Department and its resources. Last year, he wrote, fewer than four patients each day met the narrow criteria established for transport by a therapeutic van. He said the mental health agency made several efforts to increase the usage of the van but still fell short.
$4 million spent so far on this feel good liberal idea.
The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
