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Mental health mobile response teams offer alternative to police in Aurora, Colorado

Across the country, police officers are increasingly responding to mental health-related calls that don't always require an armed response. Chief national affairs and justice correspondent Jeff Pegues has the story of one Colorado police department experimenting with using mental health mobile response teams as an alternative to an armed response during emergencies in the community.
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