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‘Untenable’: San Jose leaders address news investigation on police force and mentally impaired people
SAN JOSE — In response to a Bay Area News Group investigation finding that mentally impaired people disproportionately experience serious force by San Jose police, city leaders defended police training, and blamed broader failures in mental health services and a lack of viable alternatives that could shift the burden of dealing with people in crisis away from police. The first-of-its-kind investigation, which examined more than 100 use-of-force cases in San Jose between 2014 and 2021, found that in nearly three-quarters of incidents in which officers seriously injured or killed people, those harmed were believed to be mentally ill or intoxicated. Of the 25 fatal cases during that period, 80

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