[TOMT][Defund the police] [60s-90s?] there was a police department in the US who was the first to float the defund idea because they were being forced to deal with a lot of mental illness issues rather than having a funded agency to help with it

Look up a sociologist called Egon Bittner.

He did the research in this sort of thing.

They weren't trained to be able to deal with people having a mental crisis and wanted funds diverted from them to help set up an agency to do so.

Eugene, Oregon did something like this

https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-07-06/eugene-oregons-30-year-experiment-with-reimagining-public-safety

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