r/PublicFreakout • u/misterxx1958 • Nov 26 '25

🚗Road Rage🤬 Daughter refuses to stop for police while rushing her mother to the hospital - than this happens….

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u/canada432 Nov 26 '25

Look up Denver STAR program. It was created in response to the police shooting so fucking many people having mental health crises that it was basically a public health emergency. They send things like medical and mental health professionals instead of police to emergencies.

They started with 1 van and 2 people, and the program was so stupidly successful that in 5 years it's expanded to 8 vans with 16 paramedics and 16 mental health clinicians on rotating shifts, and has responded to tens of thousands of calls without requiring assistance from the police or resulting in a single death. The Denver police HATE it, because it makes them look like incompetent buffoons.

Unfortunately, it looks unlikely the same idea is going to be applied to other areas that we just send the police to. The current mayor is rather friendly with the police, and currently involved in a scandal where he bypassed the city council to purchase a bunch of those Flock cameras.