Safer Cities provides coverage and analysis on innovative efforts to deliver more safety for our cities and our country.

Five Cities Launching Safety Ambassador Teams “To Help Restore Peace And Dignity To Public Life” In Cities.

Mobile Response and Stabilization Services teams are composed of “social workers, peer support, and other trained [medical] professionals who work with the young person and their family” during a mental health crisis.

Portland is poised to form what other cities around the country are calling a “third branch of public safety” co-equal with the police department and fire department, often called a Community Safety Department, which houses a city’s civilian responder teams.