This policy analysis, issued in April 2022, analyzes the extent to which the San Francisco Police Department is still responding to mental health street crises after the City created numerous teams composed of mental health professionals, paramedics, and peer advocates to, without law enforcement involvement, address street conditions and homelessness and assist people with mental illness and/or addiction that are having crises in the streets. The report recommends better data collection efforts to record the entity that responds to all mental health crisis calls.
