Unarmed Crisis Response

At LA Forward, we’ve been organizing for the last year around comprehensive and accessible unarmed crisis response for LA City residents across the city. While our city budget infamously invests in LAPD, it’s abundantly clear that Angelenos are seeking alternatives to armed policing as forms of creating and maintaining public safety. As such, LA Forward’s Unarmed Crisis Response working group is interested in:

  • Who residents can call when they are experiencing or witnessing immediate crisis

  • What unarmed people/services are deployed as a result of that call, and

  • The quality of those unarmed people/services in addressing the impetus for the call

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