MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — A new program in Mount Pleasant is designed to make police encounters safer for people with communication difficulties.
The Mount Pleasant Police Department is rolling out the ‘blue envelope’ program, which gives drivers a simple way to signal potential communication barriers to officers.
Anyone can experience anxiety at being pulled over, but for people with cognitive, developmental, or emotional conditions, the experience can be especially overwhelming. The blue envelope serves as a wordless signal to law enforcement that a driver may need to use different communication strategies during an interaction…