Despite More Training, Police Struggle to Coordinate Response to Mental Illness

Tragedies like the Isla Vista killings at UC Santa Barbara in May, the 2011 beating death of a homeless man by police in Orange County and the recent video of a CHP officer punching a woman who'd run onto a freeway all raise the issue of how well police are trained to deal with people with mental illness. A number of departments in the state have beefed up their training -- but that doesn't guarantee success.