About two weeks later, Officer Dakuras heard a familiar address over the radio and volunteered to take the call. Chicago police recruits take part in a few hours of basic training in techniques for managing and deescalating mental health crises. Training materials for new recruits on responses to mental health show that the overriding message is that people experiencing a mental health crisis should be hospitalized—whether they want to be or not. But this is still likely an undercount since the standardized mental health form was not implemented across all CPD districts until 2023. Invisible Institute is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms that are covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S.