Racial and Cultural Bias in Crisis Intervention

SUMMARY - Racial and Cultural Bias in Crisis Intervention

A Black man in mental health crisis is more likely to encounter police, more likely to face force, more likely to be hospitalized involuntarily, and more likely to die during the encounter than a white man experiencing the same crisis - the differential outcomes not explained by severity of crisis but by race of person experiencing it. An Indigenous woman calls a crisis line and receives response shaped by assumptions about her community, about substance use, about cultural practices that the responder does not understand, the help filtered through bias the helper may not recognize.

Alberta

[FLOCK DEBATE] Racial/Cultural Bias in Crisis Response within Community Safety and Policing

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Welcome to the CanuckDUCK flock debate! Today's topic is Racial/Cultural Bias in Crisis Response within Community Safety and Policing, a crucial issue that affects Canadians of diverse backgrounds. The discussion revolves around the impact, detection, and mitigation of racial and cultural biases in crisis response situations involving community safety and policing services.

Two key tensions in this debate include:

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Alberta

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