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

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  • Monica Deza
  • Thanh Lu
  • Johanna Catherine Maclean
  • Alberto Ortega

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We study the effect of community access to mental health and substance use treatment on police officer safety, proxied 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 treatment centers that offer mental health and substance use care, we estimate panel fixed-effects regressions. 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 police officers assaults.

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  • Monica Deza & Thanh Lu & Johanna Catherine Maclean & Alberto Ortega, 2023. "Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use: Spillovers to Police Safety," NBER Working Papers 31391, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31391
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    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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