Tag: Courtney Tassin
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Aurora police’s crisis response teams saw success in 2023
Aurora Police Department’s co-response programs, which pair mental health clinicians with emergency responders, saw growth and success in 2023 — diverting hundreds of people from jail or emergency rooms. In a recent Aurora public safety committee meeting, staff presented the 2023 outcomes of the city’s co-responder programs, which include Aurora Mobile Response Team (AMRT) and Crisis…
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Aurora panel highlights hate crime — and how to address it
Aurora authorities are seeing an uptick in hate crime. Since developing a bias-motivated crime investigator position in the Aurora Police Department in September 2021, the city received 24 reports of hate crime through December of that year. In 2022, the city received 41 reports of hate crimes. But from January of this year until now, the…
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Aurora Police have no mental health clinicians for their co-responder program
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Sunday night on Colfax Boulevard in Aurora saw lots of flashing lights and evidence markers. Police shot and killed a man on an RTD bus who they say was threatening people with a knife. Aurora Police Interim Chief Dan Oates said the man left a work release program for inmates with mental health and substance…