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Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a crime & justice story. NPR News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 22 Sept 2026, 09:00 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by NPR News
Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
- New development reported by NPR News
How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Reported by 1 outlet
- NPR