El Cajon Official: Want Cops to Back Up County Crisis Teams? Pay Up.

El Cajon Official: Want Cops to Back Up County Crisis Teams? Pay Up.

The county and its approach to mental health crisis responses arguably got more scrutiny from the El Cajon City Council during a Tuesday night meeting than a police policy shift on crisis calls that landed on the Council’s agenda.  At Mayor Bill Wells’ request, the City Council got a briefing on Police Chief Jeremiah Larson’s mid-May decision to stop automatically deploying officers to some crisis calls, a response to liability concerns that spi…