Los Angeles Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez speaks during LAPD Mission Community Police Station’s National Night Out at Brand Park in Mission Hills, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. The program helps promote police community relationships and promotes crime and drug prevention awareness.
Rodriguez added, “It’s why we have been working very diligently to help convene a response that doesn’t require LAPD.” “If successful, officers who are currently being dispatched to mental health calls can instead focus on responding to, and reducing, violent crime, burglaries and auto-thefts as well as taking more guns off our streets. We eagerly await the results of this pilot,” the statement read.Officially known as the Unarmed Model of Crisis Response , the program serves three LAPD jurisdictions: the Southeast, Wilshire and Devonshire divisions.
City officials also noted they implement the program in areas where a “gap” was identified — neighborhoods not being serviced by an unarmed response model. Officials also emphasized that three non-profits were able to more quickly begin their work in those areas. They added that LAPD 911 dispatchers have been trained on which calls to divert to a “specially equipped, centralized dispatch center,” which will handle calls for all three organizations — Exodus Recovery Inc., Alcott Center and Penny Lane Centers.
Naomi Novak, Penny Lane Centers’ senior director of Intensive Mental Health Services, said that just within the three weeks of the program, she “can’t ever remember going home especially after a 12-hour day feeling as excited and energized and proud of the impact” that they’re making.
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