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In the first of a series of programs on mental health in Minnesota, Tom Weber looks at police training for mental health crises.

 research into police shootings, 12 men were fatally shot by police in Minnesota last year. Five of them showed signs of mental illness. How is - or how should - police response be different if the suspect has a mental illness? 

Tom Weber talked with three guests during the hour.

, COO for The American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies 

, R-Vernon Center, Chair of the Public Safety and Crime Prevention Policy and Finance committee in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

• Cole Birkeland, nephew of John Birkeland, who was 

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In the first of a series of programs on mental health in Minnesota, Tom Weber looks at role of police in a mental health crisis.

MPR News host Tom Weber begins a journey into the world of mental health. Kicking off the occasional series, Tom takes on the police and looks at the high rate of fatal police shooting of people with mental illness. 7/19/16

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