New nonpolice team will respond to low-level mental health crises, domestic disputes and other issues.
Isabella Collins vividly remembers the cold late December day when her brother Angelo, overcome with anxiety and paranoia, spun into a mental health crisis, prompting her to call 911.
But today – more than two years later – there is another option, and Antioch officials gathered this week to celebrate it: the launch of the city’s first 24/7 non-police mobile crisis response team. It is being called the Angelo Quinto Crisis Response Team in honor of the Antioch man who died on Dec. 26, 2020, three days after his encounter with police.
Headed by the Felton Institute of Alameda, the team will relieve Antioch police from nonviolent, non-life-threatening, low-level calls that they normally would answer. “What’s beautiful about our team is that since these individuals all come from the community, it means this is where they live,” he said. “They know the community, they know the people, they know where the issues are going to come up and they can focus our time and attention on making sure that we are proactive in terms of how we engage issues that are going on in the community.”
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