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Denver’s STAR program successfully sent mental health professionals, not police, to hundreds of calls
FILE - STAR Program clinicians standing outside STAR Van. DENVER - Calls for changing how authorities respond to people in distress have resounded across the country amid cases such as that of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police in Rochester put an anti-spitting hood over his head and restrained him on the ground while he was having a mental health crisis in March.Chief Paul Pazen of the Denver Police Department said that changes that have people who specialize in mental health respond to calls that warrant such skills are just common sense."I saw the value of it right off the bat.