"Supervisor Jacob Henry, left, and vice president Michael Kirshner talk about the Mental Health Cooperative on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, in Nashville Tenn. The cooperative is in a partnership with the Nashville health department and Nashville police department. The cooperative built a ""psychiatric emergency room"" to reduce the number of people who end up in jail when they have a mental health crisis and are not breaking the law. Before the Crisis Stabilization Unit was created, police would have to spend a lot of time waiting for someone to have an assessment. Now police can quickly check a person into the unit and be back patrolling the streets within 10 minutes."
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