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Quiz Reimagine Policing

QUESTION 1

The name of the program called CAHOOTS is an acronym for what?

A. Collaborative Alternative Health Organization of Trinity Sisterhood

B. Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets

C. California Associated Healthcare Opportunities of Team Sacramento

D. all of the above

QUESTION 2

The CAHOOTS program responds to what kinds of problems?

A. gang and youth violence

B. disputes between neighbors about noise complaints and other non-criminal matters

C. EDPs in mental health crises

D. ALL THE ABOVE

QUESTION 3

CAHOOTS responds to calls by sending whom?

A. a mental health worker and EMT, rather than police

B. a mental health worker with police as back-up

C. specially trained police who know how to deal with EDPs

D. All the above

QUESTION 4.

According to the article about CAHOOTS, what percentage of all fatal police shootings in the US (between 2015 and 2021) were people with a history of mental illness?

A. about half, around 430 people

B. fewer than 10%, around 8,230 people

C. almost a quarter, around 1,430 people

D. all the above

QUESTION 5

What other bad outcomes are more common than being killed for those with a history of mental illness?

A. ending up on the streets or in homeless encampments

B. ending up in jails and prisons

C. ending up injured or injuring those around them

D. all of the above

QUESTION 6

Federal laws passed in 2020 and 2021 are aimed to do what?

A. create nationwide, three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis phone line-988

B. provide $15 million in grants to start mobile crisis intervention programs

C. set up three years of enhanced Medicaid funding that will cover 85 percent of the cost of operating mobile crisis intervention programs

D. All the above

QUESTION 7

According to the CAHOOTS article, how many times did CAHOOTS workers have to call the Eugene Police Department for back-up in in 2019?

A. rarely, in only 311 out of 8,583 calls from service (less than 4%)

B. about a quarter of the time, 2,142 out of 8,583 calls from service

C. Frequently, or about 4,560 times out of 8,583 calls from service (more than 50%)

D. all of the above

QUESTION 8

Programs like CAHOOTS have the potential to do what?

A. reduce the injury, incarceration or death of people in a mental health crisis

B. reduce the time and money police spend on responding to mental health crises

C. get people in mental health crises the help they really need

D. all of the above

QUESTION 9

Another city that has developed a similar program is...

A. Phoenix's Crisis Response Network

B. Denver's STAR Program

C. New York's B-HEARD program

D. All the above