Crisis teams in focus as mental health linked to Phoenix-area police shootings

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In the last 48 hours, there have been three police shootings across the Valley. As of Thursday, there have been 60 statewide so far this year, with a handful involving people having a mental health crisis.

Over the last nine months, there have been 29 officer-involved shootings in Maricopa County. Three were within this week, two of which happened overnight. The common link between them: all mental health-related.

Early Thursday morning in Glendale near the Westgate Entertainment District, police said 28-year-old Adrian Green called the crisis hotline. It was severe enough that the hotline asked Glendale PD to check on him…

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