哥伦布市设社区危机应对咨询委员会，15名成员即日起公开征集
哥伦布消息——哥伦布市宣布成立由15名成员组成的社区危机应对咨询委员会，10月6日至23日通过市政府网站接受申请。据《哥伦布电讯报》（The Columbus Dispatch）报道，该委员会将为全市新设的非警察危机应对队伍提供公众监督与政策建议，这项改革源于选民以约77%赞成率通过的第5号议案（Issue 5）。
按计划，哥伦布将在2028年2月前组建由专业人员组成的非警察应对队伍，处理心理健康危机等非暴力求助；到2030年2月1日，服务扩展为全天候24小时运作。市政府表示，咨询委员会成员将涵盖社区代表、心理健康与公共安全等领域的专业人士。
倡导者查娜·威利（Chana Wiley）等人长期推动以非执法方式回应心理健康求助。市长安德鲁·金瑟（Andrew Ginther）表示，这项由选民直接授权的改革，目标是让处于危机中的居民得到更合适的专业回应，同时为警察腾出处理暴力犯罪的精力。
按照通过的改革框架，咨询委员会将参与制定非警察应对队伍的服务标准与培训要求，并定期审阅队伍的出警数据与个案记录，向市议会提交公开报告。支持者认为，让有心理健康亲身经历者、社工与社区代表进入监督环节，有助于新队伍赢得居民信任；也有警务界人士提醒，新队伍接警的范围与安全规程必须划清，避免一线人员在信息不足时进入高风险现场。哥伦布并非孤例，近年来美国多座城市都在试点以医护与社工为主力的危机应对模式，成效与争议并存。市政府表示，委员会成员的遴选将兼顾族裔、地域与专业背景，首次会议时间与议程将在成员确定后公布。
图片来源：哥伦布市政厅（1929年档案照片），Wikimedia Commons，公共领域，美国国会图书馆
Columbus Opens Applications for 15-Member Community Crisis Response Advisory Board
COLUMBUS — The City of Columbus announced a new 15-member Community Crisis Response Advisory Board, with applications open on the city's website from October 6 to 23. According to The Columbus Dispatch, the board will provide public oversight and policy input for the city's planned non-police crisis response teams, a reform authorized by voters who approved Issue 5 with about 77% support.
Under the plan, Columbus will field professional non-police response teams — handling calls such as mental-health crises — by February 2028, expanding to round-the-clock service by February 1, 2030. The city said the advisory board will include community representatives and professionals from mental-health and public-safety fields.
Advocates including Chana Wiley have long pushed for non-law-enforcement responses to mental-health calls. Mayor Andrew Ginther said the voter-mandated reform aims to give residents in crisis a more appropriate professional response while freeing police to focus on violent crime.
Under the approved framework, the advisory board will help set service standards and training requirements for the non-police teams, review response data and case records on a regular basis, and file public reports to the city council. Supporters say seating people with lived mental-health experience, social workers and neighborhood representatives in the oversight process will help the new teams earn residents' trust; some in law enforcement caution that call types and safety protocols must be drawn clearly so responders are not sent uninformed into dangerous scenes. Columbus is not alone — many U.S. cities are piloting clinician- and social-worker-led crisis response, with results still debated. The city said board selection will balance race, geography and expertise, and that the first meeting will be announced once members are chosen.
Photo: Columbus City Hall, 1929 archival photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, Library of Congress
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