Though council members avoided discussing it in detail, the police shooting death of a woman while she was believed to be in a mental health episode seemed to hang over a police budget discussion.
San Antonio City Council members have a different form of policing on their minds as they discuss the proposed police budget.– The San Antonio Police Department may be poised for a record swelling of its ranks, but San Antonio City Council members appear more focused on how quickly the city can ramp up a promising, multi-disciplinary approach to mental health calls.
The proposed FY 2024 budget would provide the biggest year-over-year increase in the number of SAPD officers since at least FY 2000. The program uses a three-member team composed of a police officer, firefighter, and mental health clinician to respond to mental health calls. In the first year, only six of the 1,465 calls for service to which the team responded ended with arrests. SA Core by two additional teams that should come online in January. City staff say they are considering recommending even more teams for FY 2025.
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