Guest Opinion
Crisis training for all police is not a ‘flaw’
My View • Front-line officers need another tool to protect mentally ill people
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Portland Police officer Todd Engstrom (center) demonstrates to trainees the proper technique for extracting a questionable driver from a vehicle. All Portland officers also receive Crisis Intervention Training, and a My View writer says that’s the right thing to do.
After talking with reporter Peter Korn for more than an hour, it was very disappointing to see his article on Portland’s training for police on mental health issues was still titled “Experts say police training flawed” (Jan. 13).
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