A polo shirt and jeans aren’t the uniform anyone would typically expect from a police officer or a paramedic. For crisis mental health teams, dressing down is a part of the job.
Marked or unmarked: How mental health crisis response teams roll out in San Antonio , Bexar CountyGrab the jacket - Friday morning should be the coolest yet this seasonMake household chores easier and more with these Insider DealsSA CORE and S.M.A.R.T. ride unmarked for a reason. The units want to approach people in San Antonio in a nonthreatening way to meet them where they are.–
“Sometimes, an officer showing up can be a barrier to communication, to building rapport and trying to really connect a person with empathy,” Ernest Stevens, the deputy division director at the Council State Governments Justice Center, said. “Showing up in uniform and in a marked vehicle — especially the way the officers dress today — it can be alarming.
“I think community really kind of pushed the narrative forward that having those marked vans,” Thompkins said. “A lot of people don’t want to talk to somebody in uniform,” Ron with S.M.A.R.T. said. “My biggest goal is to get that rapport and convince that person that you’re not going to jail and that I’m here to help.”
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