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Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use: Spillovers to Police Safety

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We study the effect of community access to mental health and substance use treatment on police officer safety, which we proxy with on-duty assaults on officers. Police officers often serve as first-responders to people experiencing mental health and substance use crises, which can place police officers at risk. Combining agency-level data on police officer on-duty assaults and county-level data on the number of treatment centers that offer mental health and substance use care, we estimate two-way fixed-effects regressions and find that an additional four centers per county (the average annual increase observed in our data) leads to a 1.3% reduction per police agency in on-duty assaults against police officers. Established benefits of access to treatment for mental health and substance use appear to extend to the work environment of police officers.

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  • Monica Deza, 2023. "Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use: Spillovers to Police Safety," Center for Policy Research Working Papers 261, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
    • Handle: RePEc:max:cprwps:261
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    law enforcement; healthcare; on-duty assaults; mental health disorders; substance use disorders;
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    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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