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Police embrace social workers to help field rising calls tied to homelessness, mental illness

By Rachel Crumpler Chris Hatton oversees a 15-officer police force in a small western North Carolina town in Jackson County — a place where he says many calls to 911 aren’t really police matters at all.  A “suspicious” person loitering. Someone yelling in the street. A person rummaging through a dumpster. Someone in a mental […]

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