Evaluation of consequences of implementation of police crisis intervention team in Louisville.

The police crisis intervention team (CIT) for managing emergent situations that involve mentally ill subjects was instituted in Louisville in 2002. The program was described in a special article that appeared in the Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association in June 2003. To determine the impact of CIT on the outcome of police calls, we reviewed police records for 2002, the first full year of CIT operation, and 2004, the year after consolidation of city and county police forces, and compared them with pre-CIT statistics (2001), when available.