Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
People who call 911 shouldn't get an ill-trained police officer, especially when they're dealing with a mental health emergency.
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